Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Causes, Signs and Symptoms, Diagnosis and Treatment.

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Chapters

0:00 Introduction
1:14 Causes of Narcissistic personality disorder
1:43 Symptoms of Narcissistic personality disorder
2:52 Diagnosis of Narcissistic personality disorder
3:19 Treatment of Narcissistic personality disorder

Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) is a mental disorder characterized by a life-long pattern of exaggerated feelings of self-importance, an excessive craving for admiration, and a diminished ability to empathize with other's feelings. Narcissistic personality disorder is one of the eleven sub-types of the broader category known as personality disorders.[1][2]

Personality disorders are a class of mental disorders characterized by enduring maladaptive patterns of behavior, cognition, and inner experience, exhibited across many contexts and deviating from those accepted by the any culture. These patterns develop early, are inflexible, and are associated with significant distress or disability.[4][5][6]

Criteria for diagnosing personality disorders are listed in the fifth chapter of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) and in the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). Narcissistic personality disorder is a mental disorder characterized by a life-long pattern of exaggerated feelings of self-importance, an excessive craving for admiration, and a diminished ability to empathize with other's feelings.[1][2] These personality traits are often overcompensation for a fragile ego, an intolerance of criticism, and a weak sense of self.[7]

Narcissistic personality disorder differs from self-confidence which is associated with a strong sense of self.[2][7]

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition(DSM-5, 2013) describes NPD as possessing at least five of the following nine criteria.[2]

A grandiose sense of self-importance
Preoccupation with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love
Believing that they are "special" and unique and can only be understood by, or should associate with, other special or high-status people (or institutions)
Requiring excessive admiration
A sense of entitlement (unreasonable expectations of especially favorable treatment or automatic compliance with their expectations)
Being interpersonally exploitative (taking advantage of others to achieve their own ends)
Lacking empathy (unwilling to recognize or identify with the feelings and needs of others)
Often being envious of others or believing that others are envious of them
Showing arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes

Narcissistic personality disorder usually develops either in youth or in early adulthood.[2] It is common for children and youths to display personality traits that resemble NPD, but such occurrences are usually transient, and register below the clinical criteria for a formal diagnosis of NPD.[7] True symptoms of NPD are pervasive, apparent in varied social situations, and are rigidly consistent over time. Severe symptoms of NPD can significantly impair the person's mental capabilities to develop meaningful human relationships, such as friendship, kinship, and marriage. Generally, the symptoms of NPD also impair the person's psychological abilities to function socially, either at work or at school, or within important societal settings. The DSM-5 indicates that, in order to qualify as symptomatic of NPD, the person's manifested personality traits must substantially differ from social norms.[2]

[mathewnicholls]

Well I finally just think that I figured myself out after all these years, I’m 35 and always knew their was something wrong with me but I couldn’t pin point what it was. Why I always have to receive special attention or thrive on positive comments from others and why I get pissed off if I don’t! And why I put myself before others and have to have the best of everything all the time.

My childhood explains a lot really it wasn’t very stable and I struggled a lot after my parents divorced when I was 5. My mum had numerous relationships whilst my dad couldn’t give a fuck

I honestly never knew this whole narcissistic disorder was I thing. I literally have tears in my eyes right now whilst writing this comment. Thanks so much for this video it’s helped me a lot.

[universeofopulence]

...it only gets worse as the narc ages

[brendaf]

He gives me a rose and I say thank you and give him a kiss. That isn't enough. He keeps asking, "Aren't I good to you?" He is seeking more compliments and attention. Nothing is ever enough.

[ReformationAgain]

I agree with most of this video, other than the cause being the parent(s). I raised my son without his father, and neither spoiled him, nor neglected him. He was a very difficult child, as young as 5 started showing signs of narcissism. He has always had this sense of entitlement and has always been a bully, toward me and anyone else that doesn't fall in line with what he wants. He has had two wives and a number of girlfriends who he treated horribly, and lost them all, as well as his two children. He cares for NO ONE but himself. I will not be blamed for making him like he is. He needs to take responsibility for how he is and change (if that is even possible). Apart from that, I will no longer tolerate how he treats and abuses me. End of story.

[TOBEYTOO]

I have a friend who I believe is one. Whenever we talk he can't hardly say one good thing about other people. Be it coworkers or family or friends. Everybody has done him wrong. That would be my biggest complaint about him. I don't understand why we would not talk about things we both can relate to. People we have both met and know. I'm hesitant to mention anything to him because I do believe he would take it really hard. We only talk maybe three times a year because of this. It's not really doing him any good and definitely not doing me any good to not say anything all these years. Maybe I should

[DisguisedRealities]

Sravya Vivek
1 second ago
I am an survivor of NPD partner, few things I want to share here -

What i observed is it’s not NPD whom we should be correcting, it’s other way. The sufferer is the problem . Sufferer has problems with his emotional stability and that’s the reason why a narcissist continuous their drama. Sufferer has to rebook into his emotional structure

Basically an NPD are nothing but a cat covered in tiger skin.

- is he/she expecting too much from the person and are not in a position to say no ?

- are they in a position to emotionally react so that an NPD is taking advantage of ?

- do they have fears within them ? What kind of fears that an NPD is trying to take advantage of ?

- are they weak enough to tske critisisam ?

- Can’t they live with them yet be positive ?

- are they making them too strong with their behaviours ?

We need more inputs on improving self worth, confidence and outlook to get themselves betters.

I realised these areas and worked upon them for past 4 yrs and successfully was able to slowly reduce each of their traits and made them feel small and come to reality. Most of time I self doubt or expect them to understand which has created problem but instead if you imagine yourself as a parent to NPD and treat them with orders and stop giving them the food they will fall back like a small baby ! It’s hard but it works or Atleast get them in control yo 70% .

Narcissist is there everywhere in the world we can’t choose to flight every time from them . We have to learn to fight them with emotions. It’s a power everyone has and they lack. Show them how incapable they are in understanding emotions, show them their imperfections, don’t praise them, bear their gas lighting and show them how strong you are ! Let them use all techniques and you come out clean . I believe it you are encountered with an narcissist that means god gave us an opportunity to become better of ourselves and become more stronger in life, they are the pawns used by god for a great success . Hope this helps and one should have belief this will work.

[Wcnd]

I have NPD but I‘m not abusive and self-aware, AMA!

[queenkenya]

I can't be the only person who thinks the word narrsist is being thrown around to much to describe a person that resembles a couple of narsasistic traits tbh I don't take it seriously when people warn me about a narrsist because it's a phrase that's thrown around to much like calm down just because a person struggles with human emotions and has anger issues doesn't make them narsasistic

[Cherokee]

Here after my sister said this is what I have. And listening to this is hurtful. This doesn’t fit me at all. It just continues to shows how dysfunctional and narcissistic my family is and is time to cut everyone off because they still don’t get it and I’m tired of waiting around for changes true love and support. You cannot tell a smalll child they’re bitches whores and won’t amount to anything and will be like the mother who abandoned them deny me to participate in sports or anything that made me feel like a normal child. Islolate me tell me my friends are bad all while my parent is sleeping with them … you know what. YouTube channel is definitely coming! I’m tired of being silenced and being labeled as a nut job. Yeah I made be emotionally detached and don’t trust anyone but my reasons are highly validated ! A lot of people like to play victim and I’m not one and me explaining how I feel is not weakness or me playing the victim t like they try to plant in my head. My life has been destroyed from the inside and out and I have struggled for YEARS trying to figure out who I am ! Now I’m starting to believe the things people say about me and that’s a real big issue ! Because I’m not suppose to think that way! A lot of things can be changed with communication and sincerity and consistency thing is grown adults are in able of doing so, so exactly how can adults be models to children ?? I’m 30 now as of April. I see things so clearly and different. I guess I will be alone but I will be so much more at peace and some of these mental issues I have will eventually go away. I always relapse when I get around certain family and others so I know what I’m doing wrong. These people are literally not meant to be forgiven. I’m suppose to learn the lesson and move on. I kept allowing them to hurt me. As my new friend said today. I need to set boundaries. Never knew I even had them because I wasn’t raised to know I had them. I was trained to allow people to walk all over me and defending myself is deemed as being a trouble maker. They never want to talk about the bad things they do and how they hurt people. They only talk when you give them the same negative energy they give but it may be worse. When people do me wrong it really bothers me … and I don’t think that’s a mental illness I don’t care what no doctor say. Because you’re not suppose to treat people shitty and it’s INSANE to expect chivalry and you’re a shitty person from the inside and out and I’m tired of this world validating narcs. Every leader we have is a narc from politics to school leaders work leaders they’re all narcs who manipulated deceived and stepped on people. Most people who are successful are not good people.

[CleenisNOThere]

Talk about having to sleep in the same room
With one

[ardmrad]

My narci$$istic BPD, para$itic ex (Noemi B, 35, 168cm, with stubby legs, Blonde from Macerata Italy) was already engaged to a 50 year old jobless druggie in her home country (Italy). She ran away from her broken home and stayed with that guy since she was 13.

Noemi B, and her fiance "Pallino" came here in search of a better life, but her fiance was an obese jobless druggie whose only job was playing videogames. So she sent him back to Italy and asked him to wait until she's ready to bring him over. At first she tried to latch into a Portuguese guy(I found out later), but the Portuguese guy ran away from her. Then she met me, and I suckered into a relationship with her.

She made me believe that I'm the only one she looks loves and how much she wants us to get married and have family together. But in the background she was making plans with her druggie fiance. I always knew that there's something wrong. I always had bad guts feeling.

Almost three years, I let her stay at my place, I found a good and stable job for her, I was very good to her. The day she received permanent job contract from her company, she changed 180 degree and started talking about wanting to go back to Italy and stay some time with her family. Then I started to dig into her things and I found out everything about her. Prior to me and the Portuguese guy, she tried the exact same thing with two other Spanish guys in Spain.


Noemi B and Giuseppe B (aka Pallino) are two para$ites living off of normal people. And she is now with a desperate Peruvian guys and doing the exact same thing to her.

When I left her, she went around and told many lies about me, kind of preemptively protecting herself in case I tell others about who she is.

I finally discarded her and got on with my life. She brought so much misery and damage to my life. It took me two good years to recover and stand on my feet again. She went around and spread so many lies about me and did all she could to damage my reputation.

Finally I am through it and I am enjoying life with many beautiful girls. Now she is more miserable than ever and she is only with bottom of the barrel kind of guys. I don't know what kind of creature she and her fiances are, they have been doing this to so many people for years and they continue to do so.

[fridanazar]

It's scary cuz they never know that they have a problem

[crossbone]

I'm afraid that I have this disorder. 😭

[roybirch]

Being victim of npd is not pleasant, and is often painful, this l empathis with. However, npd is often associated with other MH conditions and genetics, shouldnt some npd suffers be given help to change and apologise to those they hurt? They may want to change and need a push to change, without hurting others.

[GXGamerElectroZero]

Yeah, people can get that in their brains, and do bad things all of the time, like their are Parents who got diagnosed with Narcissistic Personality Disorders in the past, same with teachers, and other authority in the world. If people have this disorder, they will do bad things towards you.

[rosannamiranda]

Mom and her siblings was abuse ask kids by the family so it made have narcissist trails and depression and anxiety

My mom abuse me and siblings as elementary Middle School and high school and college she very abuse us

My mom die Jan 2022 she sick
Me and my brother found mom she never waken up me and siblings try everything to make mom happy we was not bad kids we just normal cats teenagers and adults
But my mom did try best be good mom but her mentally ill take over her she I'm taking the medication mentally heath me and siblings worries about mom she did not take care Heath much her doctor not giving her any good medication she needed.

I was my mom caregiver awhile me and siblings always shows love mom always forgive her she knows we forgive her but mom never apologize to us I Blame her parents
Because the damge l mom by there abuses
Still healing day by day yes miss mom me and siblings did have some good times before my mom mentally issues got worst 😭💔
I don't have to deal with mom abuse no more it feels weird she not yelling me no more

[Victorjabison]

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[ohitsara]

Hi, i have a question, How can i tell a narcissist loved one that i believe they're a narcissist and they need to go to a psychologist? i really don't know how to tell her (she's my cousin and we're close) but since she has narcissist traits i can't just tell her about this easily and ofcourse she'll get mad and won't accept it...

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