When we think of personality disorder, we are usually thinking of a minor inconvenience, like a person whose vocabulary only goes to four letters, but this can be further from the truth. For a person with a personality disorder, they can be totally disruptive to the people around the person. To be forward, they will drive people away from them. As far as person of quality is concern, they will make their life a matter of a living torcher, if they have to live around a narcissist.
The obvious question is narcism a learnt behavior? Although this is an important question, the real problem is that the narcissist is totally insecure. When they feel hollow on the inside, heaven and earth is going to be move for them to get a positive feeling back in their life. And, if anyone is in their way, they are going to be cut to pieces feeling the their wrath. As most people would look at this situation, they would not want to live the life of a narcissist, with an uncontrollable empty feeling.
As for a person that has to live around narcissist, their world is in constant turmoil, since they have no idea of the direction that the narcissist will come at them. If a person tries to talk reasonably to the narcissist, they get word salad back, since the narcissist will deviate from the person’s questions and comments. By looking at this topic from a different point of view, the narcissist maybe covering themselves for know knowing the topic that is being cover, by making the person think that they know the topic when the do not. If it is at all possible, it is recommended by the professionals to leave the relationship, since this leads to the affected person leading a quality life.
As for people that live outside of a narcissist relationship, they have no idea of the living torcher that the affected person with a narcissist. A Christian might come along and state that you need to make an amends with the narcissist, as the Bible states for common misunderstanding, and this what a person would recommend that has no understanding of narcism. But, to be fair, by looking even deeper in the Bible there are passage on dealing with a narcissist. As for the person affected with a narcissist, the comments from well intended bystanders may be hurtful, so the person that is affected needs to find people, or a therapist, that they can trust.
For those that grew up with a narcissist parent, or parents, they will suffer from Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), with the term complex meaning that they were under continuous torcher from the narcissist. The afflicted person may grew out of the continuous bruising or they have have to live with the bruising over their whole lifetime.
Narcism is a sad and destructive personality disorders that many people have to live with on day to day life. The afflicted person will develop ways to cope this this situation, and probable including hours of therapy. This is one personality disorders that negatively affect many people.
(I have found that there are many different topics that are going through my mind. At the moment, I feel that I have exhausted my topics on dementia, so I am turning my focus on the narcism for now. By reading this essay closely, there are many topics that I have only briefly covered, so there will be more essays coming focusing on specific narcism topics.)
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