DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS
Any mental health disorder can co-occur with NPD.
Bipolar 1,2, and Cyclothymia can be differential diagnoses for NPD according to Todd Grande on youtube, elevated mood can make people grandiose. Usually hypo/mania is on and off.
Psychotic disorders. Sz, Sza, Psych. Depr.
Personality Disorders: Cluster B, Paranoid, And OCPD are strong, Aviodant (social withdrawal), Schizotypal (eccentric beliefs), Social anxiety.
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Iāve known some in my near 50 years but honestly most werenāt that clever!
Yeah they do well for a while but most folk pick up on the negatives and they eventually become just people you talk about!
I fell in love with one once. It happens.
My husbandās side of the family used these toxic tactics until we chose to cut the family off for a year. Letās just say, theyāve learned their lesson and havenāt tried gaslighting, playing favorites or any pretend ignorance etc. We let them know itās not ok to treat people like this.
None of this is scientific:
I believe everyone has a bit of narcissism as a personality trait; it can crop up in different scenarios.
When it is pathological (malignant?), thatās when it causes misery for the narcissist and the people āheā, or slightly less often āsheā, tries to form relationships with. (Friends and significant others, acquaintances).
I think narcissists make terrible significant others. They will make you miserable. Stay away from them, they implode and explode, the relationship might be a nightmare.
The narcissist is miserable, the narcissist lives with a nasty relational strategy which was formed early in life.
I believe narcissism is a style of buoying an unstable sense of self. All of this writing, it is what I think on the top of my head.
The narcissist is not sadistic (my guess) rather, he simply must hurt himself and others to feel like he is being seen and felt. He must feed his parasitic fantasy-twin by hurting people, so they know what not being acknowledged or praised feels like to him.
Narcisistic parents produce narcissistic children. It is heritable (genetic). Also, narcissistic parents will ignore a childās emotional needs, lavish the boy with attention, or praise him for upholding the parentās imaginary image of what he should be as a representation of the parentās exceptionality.
The child may be praised as āexceptionalā by the parents or others, then they learn to crave that attentionā¦they build their personality around the assumption that they must recieve their prerequisite (presupposed?) attention and admirationā¦just for being them and existing!
One of the things which fascinates me the most is that narcissism often passes on to the narcissists kids.
Well my Mamaās perfectly fits in this category. I get obsessed with my appearance and sometimes I manipulate people to get stuff (mostly when Iām in a mental asylum, if you want to get out of there you need to do it) I think everyone manipulates, even my doctors, no one is honest and nobody cares what we think or how we feel. I use manipulation as an important card when Iām in the hospital but most of the time Iām honest.
I also feel a lot of empathy, especially for children and old people.
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