Narcissistic Personality Disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder (sociopath, narcissist, therapy)
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Being 'narcissistic' has suddenly become fad lingo and terminology. Often brought into conversation by the narcissistic qualities of too many 'selfies', but it goes deeper than that too.
Have you known anyone with Narcissistic Personality Disorder and/or Borderline Personality Disorder?
The psychological syndromes are said to be pretty intractable - not easily eradicated by therapy and counseling, and most of the traits remain life long.
Being 'narcissistic' has suddenly become fad lingo and terminology. Often brought into conversation by the narcissistic qualities of too many 'selfies', but it goes deeper than that too.
Have you known anyone with Narcissistic Personality Disorder and/or Borderline Personality Disorder?
The psychological syndromes are said to be pretty intractable - not easily eradicated by therapy and counseling, and most of the traits remain life long.
My Mother likely had both (fits symptoms to a T), and was a sadist as well.
Pop is most likely a narcissist, and my mother has all the signs of BPD. Pop is easy to deal with, and mom has been put at a distance. I hate being on guard against her manipulations all the time - it's exhausting. Pop currently has dementia and is living with me (on what he thinks is an extended vacation). He's pretty compliant, and I think he's happy to be around me at this stage of his life - partly because I wait on him hand and foot.
My mother is currently terrified that I will confront her about all the emotional abuse and craziness, and I'm just glad she's staying away.
By the Wikipedia definition, I know of a narcissist. She's an extended family member who takes her parents and siblings for granted. She was (and still is) a huge mooch. Her siblings buys food for everyone in the house to eat, but she only buys food for herself.
She makes a mess for her siblings to clean up. She let the family's dogs escape but didn't tell anyone (her siblings found out when a stranger was nice to enough to bring the dogs to the vet, who called one of the siblings).
She doesn't like one of the family dogs, would hit him, then called animal control when he bit her. Ha, even a dog knows she's bad. But she loves her own pets (cats) and spoils them.
She got her own computer room (in addition to her bedroom) while her siblings only have their bedrooms (okay, it's not her fault that's she's spoiled).
There are so many more examples of her meanness and nastiness, but these are a few.
I don't know anyone who has a borderline personality.
I am very familiar with BPD, and narcissistic and sociopathic personalities as my ex wife is one. I thought it was bipolar at first. Horrible, horrible experience.
I've known 2 people with BPD in my life. Started out as friends with both of them. One got help and did much better. One got scary and I avoid him now.
It's horribly sad that people have to deal with these things.
Yes, I knew a narcissist. We were distant friends for a few years. When she moved up in life, she refused to see me. That was back in college. Then she flunked out of the advanced degree program and humbled down.
Being 'narcissistic' has suddenly become fad lingo and terminology. Often brought into conversation by the narcissistic qualities of too many 'selfies', but it goes deeper than that too.
Have you known anyone with Narcissistic Personality Disorder and/or Borderline Personality Disorder?
The psychological syndromes are said to be pretty intractable - not easily eradicated by therapy and counseling, and most of the traits remain life long.
Personality disorders are highly resistant to treatment, particularly Cluster B disorders...CBT can help make inroads.
As with all particularly disorders, don't confuse subclinical behavioral traits with full pathologies. Every selfish jerk isn't a clinical narcissist...Most are just selfish jerks.
There is a significant difference between a 'narcissistic personality disorder and a Malignant narcissist disorder. Donald Trump has been called a malignant Narcissist, and much of his reported behaviour seems to fits the broad criteria.
Narcissistic Personality Disorder
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Narcissistic personality disorder is a destructive preoccupation with one’s own personal adequacy, power and prestige. People with this disorder crave for admiration, have an unreasonably strong sense of entitlement and are often preoccupied with unrealistic fantasies of success, beauty and ideal love. Unlike malignant narcissism, narcissistic personality disorder is defined as a mental illness in DSM-V (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the Fifth Edition).
Campbells’ Psychiatric Dictionary defines malignant narcissism as a mix of narcissism, antisocial personality disorder, aggression and sadism. It is important to mention that malignant narcissism was not included in the latest edition of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V) and is not considered to be a diagnostic term.
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