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Is there any hope for us narcs?

Postby spleefy » Mon Apr 17, 2023 8:16 pm

I am a self-aware covert narc who has made minimal progress in improving myself over the last 10 years. The problem is that I only want to deal with my disordered personality when I'm going through crisis.

My latest crisis is that I took Jordan Peterson's 5 domain personality test, and the results really concern me (even though there's nothing there that is a surprise).

I am extremely high in neuroticism, very low in consciencetiousness, middle in openness and extraversion, and low in agreeableness. I literally have the worst personality profile possible in terms of being horrible, unhappy, predisposed to all kinds of mental health and physical problems, and I just kinda feel like giving up. Is there any help for someone like me to actually improve themselves and live a somewhat bearable life?
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Re: Is there any hope for us narcs?

Postby 1PolarBear » Wed Apr 19, 2023 7:18 pm

Those things are not set in stone, they can change.
They can even change with your mood, so one day you might show so results, the other day the opposite.
Like if you feel bad, you probably won't be high on agreeableness.

But yes, you can have reasonable expectations of yourself and not shoot for the stars, don't follow ideologies, always stay grounded, try and appreciate people as independent from you and equal, not as tools. Reject envy as a motivation factor. Certainly don't follow Peterson, because he is highly narcissistic himself, in the sense of quite pathological.
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