A borderline. Essentially a more emotionally reactive narcissist.
My departed husband was a narcissist. His father was narcissistic as well, a verbally and physically abusive alcoholic. I believe that the narcissistic role model and abuse contributed to my husband's being a narcissist. I think that some narcissistic people were not abused but indulged, told that they were special and different...a sense of entitlement. My mother was also a narcissist, and her mother was non functioning so Mom was neglected, a different type of abuse. They rob your soul if you let them. Often people who are addicted to alcohol and/or drugs tend to be narcisstic. I attend Al-Anon and now have a joy and peace I never knew before, understanding this complicated personality, and how to not be involved for you cannot change another person. Learn why you are with such complicated people to begin with!
I was in a seventeen-year relationship with an abusive narcissist and was subsequently diagnosed with chronic and severe PTSD. I had the good fortune to be treated by an excellent psychotherapist with expertise in trauma. EMDR was used in our sessions and I found it to be remarkably beneficial.
Why would ANYONE want to be with a narcissist? A codependent would be about the only type of personality that could tolerate being with a narcissist, and they will pay a terrible price. Dump the narcissist and get some help with the codependency. ACOA, CODA, Al-anon and Nar-anon are as close as your telephone.
If your sister-in-law is verbally abusive, there is no law you can invoke to stop her. Your best option is to avoid her.
What you describe is a narcissist or egotist.
Narcissists usually will pick someone with a good nature, someone that is kind and empathetic. They also zero in on a person who is needy. Such a person will forgive the narcissist for their abuse and permit the narcissist to manipulate and control them.Co-dependent individuals are prime meat for a narcissist. Such individuals will stay in an abusive relationship long after anyone else would've left. The co-dependent individual will blame themselves for a lot of the problems in the relationship and feel they cannot survive without the narcissist, allowing the narcissist to extract narcissistic supply from them through abuse and extracting idealisation from them.Self confident and strong willed individuals are not preferred by narcissists as these type of people will challenge the narcissists bad behaviour and not permit the narcissist to get away with their abusive and exploitative ways.Further, those with few friends, who come from troubled backgrounds are preferred by narcissists. These individuals are the most vulnerable to narcissistic abuse and manipulation and provide a steady stream of narcissistic supply.
THE NARCISSIST CEREBRAL/SOMATIC AND THE OPPOSITE SEX This chapter deals with the male narcissist and with his "relationships" with women. It would be correct to substitute one gender for another. Female narcissists treat the men in their lives in a manner indistinguishable from the way male narcissists treat "their" women. I believe that this is the case with same sex partners. To re-iterate, Primary Narcissistic Supply (PNS) is any kind of NS provided by people who are not "meaningful" or "significant" others. Adulation, attention, affirmation, fame, notoriety, sexual conquests
A narcissist would not want help because he or she would not think there was anything wrong. Therefore, you can't help a narcissist; even when a narcissist is court ordered into therapy, there is little a professional can do to help a person change this personality type.
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Anybody can become a criminal in the wrong circumstance or with the wrong decision making. A narcissist does not mean that that individual is a criminal though. Many narcissists are law abiding citizens that struggle every day with their mental health and their personality which creates these rigid patterns of behavior that make them very difficult to have interpersonal relationships with. But being somebody that is hard to get along with and somebody that you wouldn't want to have a relationship with necessarily do to their tendency toward manipulation and abuse that's emotional, they're just have a higher susceptibility to that type of relationship where they are doing that kind of thing It doesn't necessarily mean that that individual is abusive They just have a higher likelihood of being abusive. It's the same with criminality. There are great large number of narcissists that would never consider committing a crime, but the entitlement and the grandiosity aspects, if those traits are high enough in that individual narcissist then they could have a higher susceptibility or a higher likelihood of becoming a criminal. It's all still very individualized and based in terms of that person's overall personality and their traits in general. It's not one size fits all that all narcissists are criminals, it's some people are criminals who happen to be in narcissists.
A meter stays a meter. Always and forever.