Narcissism

Waking consciousness is a kind of mental state wherein it encloses the feelings, idea and thoughts of an individual. Waking consciousness occurs when a person is awake and active.

No, because they pursue the illusions they create in their twisted minds.

The fantasy is created not in pursuit of happiness. It is created as the main part of the process of self denial. Just as the constant lies and the Narcissist rages are also part of the self denial compulsion.

We all do things to protect us from our phobias and fears. One may sleep with the lights on if we are afraid of the dark. Is this happiness?

Happiness is not a feeling of safety. It is also more then a sense of achievement. It is a function of self awareness. This is something beyond a Narcissist.

If we are the leading role in a play and we achieve high regard for our performance, this is wonderful feeling. But it is not happiness. We would not trade such a moment for the feeling one has in the arms of a true love or at the wedding of ones daughter or the birth of a child.

Maintaining a fake self image, has absolutely nothing to do with happiness and never will. Happiness will only land at ones feet when in ones own shoes.

Borderline personality disorders, although they cause social difficulties, can be hard to "treat." These disorders are usually diagnosed by a psychiatrist or a psychologist, and a prescription isn't necessarily prescribed. To "treat" personality disorders, patients often go through extensive counseling sessions.

The way in which a narcissist thinks is basically everything to do with the self. It is all what is in it for them, what they can gain out of each situation, what they can extract from each person they come into contact with. When they have no particular use for that person, they discard them without a second's thought.

No. That person is only an extension of himself. He can only love things that are of himself and thus is incapable of any selfless love, empathy, or understanding. A narcissist's onlyopportunity for change occurs during a life altering crisis. This deflates the narcissist's ego a leaves him emotionally unstable. It is possible, but very unlikely a narcissist will change. It is even more unlikely he will change for another person. He probably is unaware of his own attitudes as they are subconscious defense mechanisms usually formed in childhood or adolescence. Furthermore, he is incapable of that self-sacrificing behavior that enables Pygmalion projects.

• Yes. Go onto: www.google.com Then type in: Treatment for Narcissistic Personality Disorder?" Don't be surprised to find that there is little help because Narcissists are not labeled "Narcissistic" without a good reason. They feel they are right and everyone else is wrong, so it's highly doubtful they would ever seek counseling and if they did they wouldn't believe what the counselor told them anyway. Few Narcissistic people are every helped and therefore it's difficult to really study a group of people that are narcissistic.

Histrionic personality disorder sufferers tend to exaggerate things, act in a dramatic fashion, and can be prone to excessive shows of sentimentality, anger, sadness, and happiness verging on mania. They can use this to manipulate people. The "drama queen" archetype applies.

A narcissist is pretty close to an arrogant person. Yes, they do actually care what other people think of them or if they hurt others, but they would like you to believe otherwise. Usually narcissistic people have been hurt in some way, so they put a wall up. Often people that have had a very rough time in life will quite often put up a wall to protect themselves. From the narcissistic people I have encountered I do find they use their "private time" to express their feelings. There are people out there with absolutely no remorse and will give themselves all types of excuses to make themselves feel right, but narcissistic people a usually not included in this.

Narcissists imitate emotions in order to attrcat attention and sympathy (forms of narcissistic supply).

According to the psychological structure, "narcissism" is an obsessive interest in oneself. This obsession with the self runs the gamut from vanity (preening in the mirror) to downright God-complexes. Nevertheless, narcissists have feelings. Are narcissists sensitive? Let us define "sensitive." In its most exacting definition, "sensitive" means more aware of other people's feelings than one's own feelings. In most psychological opinion, narcissists are considered over- or hyper-sensitive. This does not mean that narcissists care more about other people than the average person. In fact, it means just the opposite. It means that THEIR feelings are more likely to be hurt (if you can get their attention away from themselves in the first place!). Thus, narcissists are not "sensitive" (liable to be touched someone else's feelings)... they are "delicate" (more apt to touched by their OWN feelings). Remorse is indeed a feeling, and it has two sides. First, it applies towards what has happened to another person or creature. Second, it applies to what has happened to oneself. For example, let us say that a man runs over a dog. Most people have both of sides of remorse run through them. First, a person generally feels bad for what has happened to the dog and its owner and perhaps anyone in the vicinity who may have been affected by the accident. Second, a person generally feels fear for what will happen next -- citations, civil suits, revenge, trauma to oneself. In narcissistic behavior, one would see more of the latter. However, let us not be hasty to attribute labels based on incidents or moments in time. Narcissism as a pathology must be identified over a longer period of time. Even so, all humans have the element of narcissism with them. It is called the Survival Instinct. In this regard, we are all narcissistic to some extent. A person who is PATHOLOGICALLY narcissistic is predominantly in Survival mode, and normally asks "What will happen to ME?" or "How does this affect ME?" It is not that a narcissist does not feel empathy or sympathy towards others, it is simply that fear and adrenaline overcome his or her better nature. How does one overcome narcissism? To begin, the narcissist must understand that there are bigger, more important things than one's own security and perfectionism. The narcissist must stop relying on the soothing words of his or her enabling partner (accomplice) and instead rely on the soothing word of God, who is bigger than any person or nation. Vanity is useless in front of a God who knows your heart. Faith overcomes fear and allows the narcissist to "let things happen." How many people do we know who say "it's all about me!" These would benefit greatly from helping others, but those gestures are empty without the appreciation that a narcissist craves. God fills that void.

In most cases it is taken as a negative word. Intellectual Vanity means to have a intellectual pride and to consider other people inferior in terms of knowledge and education.

Narcissism can be difficult to treat at times, but it depends on the client. If the client is truly motivated (which yes, does happen despite what you may read online), treatment requires that the therapist be particularly skilled in the treatment of this disorder. There are some very specific therapeutic interventions that can significantly reduce symptoms for a motivated client. If you, or someone you love, are suffering from narcissism I would recommend searching online for someone in your area that has had proven success with this area of treatment. Personally, I have found working with narcissism to be both enjoyable and fulfilling.

So, to summarize, find someone in your area that both enjoys working with narcissism and has had success in its treatment.

NA usually refers to Narcotics Anonymous. There is no Narcissists Anonymous, since they do not recognize a problem and generally feel no need to change.

In addition to treatments such as a feeding tube, a person with ALS would likely enlist the help of a speech therapist to help him or her determine ways in which he or she can maintain vocal control.

histrionic personality disorder.

well, it depends on the girl, but often times it is because the girl has low self esteem and she feels like she can't do any better or deserves what she has. Other times, she can be forgiving, and just let it go. I would say more times than not, the girl leaves.

The narcissistic teacher: The narcissistic teacher thinks everyone is the same type learner she is. Students fail her class because she doesn't know or care how to motivate them. She favors students who give copious compliments to her. She doesn't like attractive girls unless they participate in her sport. She competes with girls for attention of teenage boys. She dresses too provocatively for a high school teacher. At lunch with other teachers, she tells all who will listen about her relationships, college exploits, and plans to purchase a house, car, dog, etc. She talks too much during staff meetings while speakers are trying to keep the staff's attention. I wish she would leave, but I just found out, she's coming back.

With genuine attachment to the words they are saying? No. But a narcissist can 'complement' someone they think of as 'special' or 'high status', (I.e., someone who is 'special' and 'unique' enough to understand 'special' and 'unique' them.) And a narcissist is capable of 'love-bombing' someone who is affiliated with someone who has 'crossed them' in some way such as causing narcissistic injury by pointing out reality to them in an effort to get the third party on their 'side.' Finally, narcissistic parents with multiple children typically have at least one 'golden child,' I.e., the child who they define as 'fine' because they meet the parent's emotional needs without question and without showing any needs of their own...The parent will sometimes lavish praise insincere praise on their 'golden child' to send a message to their other children and that message is this: 'See, I AM capable of being loving, just not to YOU.' Narcissistic parents also sometimes praise their children in public/around an audience. So yes, narcissists can show the behavior of complimenting someone else, but no, none of it is sincere...Like all of their actions it is a manipulation designed to ellicit a response in others, secure a resource for themselves, etc.

From what I have read, a malignant narcissist is the same thing as a narcissist but with extra antisocial features. Basically if narcissists are bad, malignant ones are really really bad!

True. From what I have read, Malignant narrcists seem to some sociapathic tendancies. While some narrccists hurt people and just do what it is they do. They dont set out with the intension to do harm but when they do of course they dont care. I think malignant narccists actually premeditate. Actually choose certain victims and know they r going to just use this person. I guess u could say one may drive wrecklessly and run u over and not look back. Malignant will put u in their sites, run u over intentionally and maybe even throw it in reverse and back over u again. Not only will they not care they actually get pleasure out of it. SO yes malignants r really bad.

Yes, with themselves.

For the same reason cult leaders do. They don't want any "voices of reason" undermining their plans or their quest for control. They don't want any family members, friends, clergy, etc. to get in the way of what they are trying to achieve. Its easier to brainwash someone if your voice is the only voice they ever hear.

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I like this question because it signifies a Narcissistic control tactic that overpowered me. I am no longer with the N. I was the one who called a halt to a relationship that was totally governed by him...in fact the only control I ever did have was severing the relationship point blank. My partner isolated me in every fashion he knew possible...this does not mean that he enjoyed my company when he had me in his clutches. On the contrary, although my dedication to him was total, at the cost of injuring all other worthwhile relationships, he was never satisfied with me, per se.

He would constantly belittle my actions and comments, would tease me about my appearance or 'suggest' I make changes to same; continually gave me instructions on how best do the most mundane tasks that I had been capable of doing since birth, tormented me about my driving skills, kept on asking me to speak up ("I can't hear you"!); nastilly ran down my children, mother, siblings, friends (and cats) and outlined the shortcomings of each individual and how they were doing wrong by me; would ignore me for lengthy periods of time until he had a few drinks whereby afterwards he would become all cutsie and uncontrollable (this pattern assumed itself day in, day out); never once bought me a birthday or Christmas present but made a hoopla about each occassion when it related to him; refused to have any physical contact for days; arranged each of my days according to his plans; sulked or became furious if I altered any arrangement made by him; questioned every phone call I received; left me stranded in foreign places when he was angry and left me to find my own way back (to home, hotel, camp site etc); intentionally ogled other women; made outrageous promises that he never kept; ignored me when I was hospitalised with a serious condition; hell...the list goes on.

For months I believed that him wanting me 'to himself' was a sign of affection. Anyone who understands how Ns work will acknowledge how I believed this. My relationship went from one of total control with isolation to desertion. The N travelled the globe for a year, alone.On his return it took him days to contact me and when he did it was only to ask for my help with something that would benefit him...I knew it was time to go.

When Ns isolate you you become dependent on them and their way of life...it takes a while to adjust back into the real world after leaving an N but if you can actually make the break and resume normal life again you will rejoice and celebrate it with so much vigour that ideas of being back with the N will assume the status of nightmares. Trust me...you can leave!

Isolation is about power and control. It is also about the perpetrator having a low sense of self esteem. I counseled a woman whose husband took their phones out of the house as he was leaving for work. They lived in a rural area and she did not have a car so she was completely isolated.

I also worked with a perp who put his wife's car on blocks for the purpose of isolating her from family and friends.

My ex I am sure felt very vulnerable when I started realizing something was wrong with her and she didn't have a backup supply. She begged me she didnt want to breakup. So i didn't. But the whole time she was online looking for a backup when she found one she told me to go ahead and move on and didnt blink an eye. So the only time I think they feel vulnerable is when they r about to lose their supply source and dont have a backup.

I would ignore his phone calls and use their own excuse, "I didn't know that you called". My exN is so irresponsible he couldn't keep up with the child support payments. He got so far behind I took him to court. He was going to go to jail but we made a deal. I dropped it if he would relinquish his parental rights, which he did. He was more concerned about saving his own *** then to be part of his daughter's life. I thank God he did! Now my daughter will not be part of his dysfunctional life!

My estranged NPD husband (I have hired a lawyer to file for divorce) is afraid of being exposed to HIMSELF. I sent him the DSM-IV link for diagnosis of NPD, offered to help him in any type of recovery he might want (regardless of the divorce which will proceed). He replied that he is toxic, should not be close to people, will warn people who want to be close to him, but says he wants to be "whoever" (his word) he is. He does not want to change. He fears looking at the underlying emotional trauma which caused him to create the "false self" (my words). He does not have time for further self-examination (his words.)