What makes a narcissist become a psychopath?

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[Kitty-lglf]

Clearly she’s brilliant, but Dr. Ramani’s ability to communicate this stuff is mind blowing to me. So grateful.

[weddingvideographerireland]

“It takes a fair amount of energy to be an asshole.” 😂😂😂

[UserBuggojojoboboji]

Dr. Ramani, I post this to thank you for your endless devotion of educating the public about narcissist. I am from China, and I have a narcissist mom, whom I literally just learned how to escape from by the last day of 2022 thanks to the information you put on this channel for free. Your videos have been helping so many people cross the Pacific in the Chinese-speaking communities. People have been translating your videos to educate others on our own video platforms (Youtube and other social medias are banged in China), and because of that people are able to leave all kinds of narcissist relationships and build their own lives. Thank you so much!

[bigboislg]

I watched a video by Richard Grannon where he was basically talking about how the implied delusion that narcissists have pretty much makes them closer to psychopathy than we think, and it made so much sense to me.

[toniblodgett]

My father became worse as he got older. We believe he was not only a narcissist but a psychopath or sociopath. When he was 84, we became very concerned that he was going to try and kill our Mom who was very ill and had been for a number of years. They had been married for 60 years at that time. We rallied around her, removed his gun and made sure she was safe. It was horribly nerve-wracking. 3 years later, he went sideways one night and we evacuated our Mom out of the house (with her permission), found her an apartment that he was not told the location and my sister lived with her and took care of her. He had to find his own place to live and moved in with a widower who was friends of our family for over 50 years. After 2 months, he was asked to move out because of his disturbing behavior and his fixation with getting another gun. He ended up shooting himself on our friends property 1 month later. Horrible...but we are so thankful that we saw the writing on the wall and kept our Mom safe. Plus we don't have to deal with him anymore. Sounds rotten, but he sexually abused all 3 of girls and treated my Mom terribly with no remorse. The bully got what he deserved.

[papaki]

perhaps a psychopath can be seen as narcissist in the beginning of his life but as he grows up the psychopathetic characteristics unfold and maybe dominate his entire behavior..

[jessicamarks]

A counselor had told me I was with a narcissist with psychopathic traits, I went on to another counselor as that one retired and was told the same thing . One thing is for sure in my experience of 9 years with this person, the level of deception was very high meaning I was blown away at the length he would go to hurt me due to me holding him accountable . And over time as I saw him age he got much much worse in his entitlement, arrogance and all around ego .

[elinesvendsen]

Narcissists need other people and deep down often crave other people's love, admiration and the human connections, though they are not fully capable of having deep relationships. Psychopaths don't, they don't care what others think of them unless it actively ruins something for them. They don't really care about love or emotional connection, only what they can gain from it (power, money, etc.). For narcissist, what they hope to gain is often something relational: Admiration, other people feeling sorry for them, other people thinking they are rich or beautiful or successful, other people falling in love with them, etc.

[love]

My mom was at least a sadistic psychopath. There needs to be more help for psychopathic abuse recovery.

[kristinemajchrzak]

All I can say is kudos to you dr. Ramani and thank you for helping us all ❤

[Kiddo_X]

There's a line that's crossed. Once that's done, there's no going back. So, can the narcissist evolve into a psychopath? Yes.

[lindareimer]

I think a narcissist who is also an alcoholic can be psychopathic when intoxicated.

[yellowtheresunshine]

can, in my experience. Having someone routinely psychologically abuse until a person is most vulnerable, then to heinously and strongly encourage the abused person to take their own zero remorse = psychopathy to me.

[sloanefrances]

Perfect summary of my own mother—only, she’s gone undetected by nearly anyone shes ever met apart from her only child (me) and a couple of her failed, adult friendships, which includes her first choice of ‘godmother’ for me.

[tripphouse]

Dr. Ramani is such a brilliant and well spoken mental health professional.

[dogtrainingmexico]

This is very helpful. I have been trying to figure out if my sister is a psychopath or a narcissist... now am leaning towards the psychopath verdict. She definitely has zero remorse, lies constantly and has no emotional depth

[maryelisedivita]

Dr. Ramani.... Would you be willing to do a video on the aging Narcissist? How do they behave? Do they improve or does it get worse? What are some things we can expect with our narcissistic elderly parents?

[VicMikesvideodiary]

Narcissism, sociopath, psychopath. That's the gradient. On the extreme other end ( before narcissism ) is pure empathy. Where you are or tend to live on the gradient depends on how self absorbed and self centred you are.

[dianajane]

Yes. The self-focus, combined with devaluation of others, can get them to stomp all over anyone who gets in their way, or comes between them and their new supply source, which can rise to the level of psychopathy.

I speak from experience. Recent experience.

[Flyingrabbit]

I think money creates psychological classes of people and narcissistic personalities with large incomes are more likely to do things we might think of as psychopathic because there is no blow back from peers and no empathy. The morality most of us learned in church and from human interaction exists on a sliding scale of privilege vs empathy when expressed in the real world. People with no money need to be nice to others and interact with them in kind and peaceful ways. People born into privilege are often much more self-centered because they can get and do the things they want without much concern or empathy for anyone. I think as a narcissist rises through the financial ranks they are surrounded by more of these people and are likely to feel supported if not in specific actions, by an overall neglect of discussion of interpersonal values. It simply isn't a topic of conversation. No one who matters is going to challenge their private behavior as long as they are publicly productive. Lacking basic empathy they go with the flow.