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Personality Disorders

Narcissistic Personality Disorder

People withNeed a lot of praise narcissistic personality disorder has a long-time pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts.

Their minds are so filled with the fantasies of success and the desire for self-importance and attention, that they become insensitive to other people's needs and might exploit others.

Less than 1% of the general population has histrionic personality disorder.

People with narcissistic personality disorder will have a majority of the following symptoms:

  • show a great sense of self-importance, boasts and exaggerates their talents and achievements, and expects others to admire them although they have not achieved anything remarkable.
  • expects others to see them as a superior person
  • believes that they are unique and special, and that only people of high-status people can understand them.
  • needs a lot of admiration and praise.
  • their minds are occupied with their dreams of power, success, beauty and they need to be the center of attention.
    Occupied with dreams of ideal love, power and beauty
  • have unreasonable expectations others to treat them with exceptionally favorable treatment.
  • take advantage of others to fulfill their purposes
  • unwilling to recognize other's needs and feelings
  • often jealous of others and thinks that others are also jealous of them
  • displays conceited behavior
    Conceited


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