Narcissistic personality disorder
I have an acquaintance who was recently diagnosed with this disorder. I feel sorry for him and after some research noticed that it is actually a common disorder among everyday friends and some family. The net is the ideal place too for these types to hide and exercise their disorder.
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A person with a narcissistic personality disorder swings between seeing themselves as special and fearing they are worthless. They may act as if they have an inflated sense of their own importance and show an intense need for other people to look up to them.
Other symptoms include:
•exaggerating their own achievements and abilities
•thinking they are entitled to be treated better than other people
•exploiting other people for their own personal gain
•lacking empathy for other people's weaknesses
•looking down on people they feel are ‘beneath’ them, while feeling deeply envious of people they see as being ‘above’ them.
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But having said that, I do always strive to be good to all including me.
Otherwise how are you and your beautiful Africa?
We all fit into a slot somewhere
That for me is rather a scary statement.... to think we could be chatting to people with serious personality disorders....
Seriously Luke, the advance diagnosis of such a plight will channel us to better understanding and make the person act as normal, with proper medication to create balance. I think it will soon make the whole humanity, normal I guess..
But I will keep on reading.
Thanks Luke and might I add? This blog opens up a lot of good possibilities to help us recognize the trigger points and know how to react around them..JMO
Thanks again Luke.
BUT:Normal…what is normal…according to what standard of acceptable behaviour can we class an individual as normal…
socially acceptable patterns of behaviour or the acceptable norms of an individual…
if normalcy is based on the individual then they generally can’t be classed as having any personality disorders what so ever…in the end all diagnoses of personality disorders are a matter of opinion…..
and if you don’t mind then it really doesn’t matter….. does it?
Who cares?
go well my sweet friend and don't wear labels that don't belong to you..
Yes, Luke I finally decided I belong to the non working people of America and took my early retirement albeit against my better judgement monetary wise, but I think I will croak soon so I might as well go with the flow of whatever comes my way...
Yes indeed Luke...I am on my way, so totally...
It seems like alot of us here on the Blog have this NARCISSISTIC
We are so full of our slefes
And at the end of the day
Its all Hot Air
We need to come back down to earth.
Cool ronnings
And I thought narcissism was a religion.
I certainly hope that your friend has ended that sick friendship with that person. Thanks for your comment my friend.
BTW are you going to cast your vote?