Narcissistic Personality

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I’ve been doing research into Cluster B personality disorders and I think this explains so much.

I think it started as a coping mechanism to deal with (what was at the time) untreated major depression and to make sense of my delusions of grandiosity.

I’m going to talk to my pdoc about it in our next appointment.

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  • Have an exaggerated sense of self-importance

  • Have a sense of entitlement and require constant, excessive admiration

  • Expect to be recognized as superior even without achievements that warrant it

  • Exaggerate achievements and talents

  • Be preoccupied with fantasies about success, power, brilliance, beauty or the perfect mate

  • Believe they are superior and can only associate with equally special people

  • Monopolize conversations and belittle or look down on people they perceive as inferior

  • Expect special favors and unquestioning compliance with their expectations

  • Take advantage of others to get what they want

  • Have an inability or unwillingness to recognize the needs and feelings of others

  • Be envious of others and believe others envy them

  • Behave in an arrogant or haughty manner, coming
    across as conceited, boastful and pretentious

  • Insist on having the best of everything — for instance, the best car or office

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Thanks to being open and using I statements to describe what I felt in ONE hospitalization, i have narcissistic disorder listed on my notes.

My pdoc and therapist blow it off, but that really bothered me for a while.

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I can identify with all of those qualities. I am truly a narcissist.

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You are not a Narcissist @anon2818416
You are a warm compassionate person.

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Awww well thanks @Wave :heart: I’ve been trying really hard to break those old patterns. Glad it shows :blush:

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I have no narcissistic personality traits because I’m perfect.

Adore me.

Rawr.

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Hahaha nailed it :rofl:

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Okay but for real tho. I look back on the things I’ve said and done, and I haven’t always been a nice person

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I was 100% a lying douche before I cleaned up. And I’ve had to work hard at honesty because lying is the fastest path back to the bottle and the miserable life that comes with. Not a single one of us is perfect, but if you can be just a bit better of a person today than you were yesterday, that’s #WINNING. Then just do it over again the next day.

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Thanks friend :slight_smile: that means alot

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Personality disorders are extremely fixed and hard to change. I thought at one point I had BPD with narcisstic tendencies. Turned out I was surrounding myself with bad people. Once I got away those behaviors ceased.

A narcissist most likely won’t admit they’re a narcissist or even consider it.

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I’ve had to put in a lot of work to get where I am now, for sure. I dunno, as soon as I saw the symptom criteria it just really clicked with me, like a total ahah moment. The same one I had when I was DX’d sza

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I’m the roundest plumpest potato anyone has ever seen :sunglasses::sunglasses::sunglasses:

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Haha congrats dude :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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You rock 151515

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