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I have been blessed to receive personal responses from some of you and the responses have helped tremendously!

I have too many loses and I don't want to lose it. The psychological and emotional pain is becoming much to much to bear. Please help until I can find a local doctor to help me. My current Psych is a little too overwhelmed and busy right now. When I told him about my situation with having ...

I have just finished reading "Emotional Vampires: Dealing with People Who Drain You Dry" (Albert J. Bernstein, Ph.D). I recommend this book for its insights and humour, not just on N's but on other emotional manipulators.

The book resonated with me because it helped me recognize the true cost to me of being NS to my N for 30 years. It wasn't the emotional wounds, because I am well into the healing process and know ...

Pablo Picasso.

notorious narcissist.

who else? Da Vinci?

Are most Narcissists in denial?

Do they admit their problem to their friends, family, partner, themselves etc? Do they seek help or just carry on with their lives causing destruction?

I have a male friend who's only topic of conversation is women, how to meet women, his history of women etc etc. He's totally obsessed. He craves to be surrounded by women and play them off each other to get the one he wants. He hardly has any male friends yet many female friends. Whenever he has house party's the majority of invites go to women. I feel as though I'm his only close male ...

Will a narcissist treat all their partners like crap or will they eventually find someone that they can actually get on with?

"All that is essential for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing".
Edmunde Burke

NPD is almost never curable. I read that the prognosis is about 1%. It's weird to think of a disorder that is incurable AND untreatable. AIDS isn't curable, but it is somewhat treatable. People with NPD often cause problems for others and themselves. If they can't be cured or treated, what do we do about them? Do we just avoid them all? Do we attempt to help them even though it's virtually impossible? Do we ...

I just learned about NPD a couple of months ago and I am still in total shock about all of this. I fluctuate between denial and acceptance of NPD. He definitely meets all of the criteria and my experience with him have all been shockingly on target with the stories I have read here.

I am having an extremely difficult time dealing with the devaluing of me that has occurred. I can't undestand how he ...

I know there was a previous topic along these lines, but I didn't want to gravedig. Anyhow..

I saw a fantastically eerie portrayal of a narcissist on an australian comedic mockumentary mini-series which documents the progression of a handful of fictional Australian of the year award nominees. This is the only clip of him I can find:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=IY4SgNLQS-Q
It has the other characters which Chris Lilley plays (he plays all the nominees) as well, but ...