Mental health problems >>>> Narcissism - trait or disorder
Narcissism - trait or disorder.
The overwhelming majority of people are satisfied with themselves, like themselves, proud of their achievements, brag about their appearance. And this is the norm! But sometimes narcissism reaches such heights that a person begins to demonstratively put himself above everyone else, based on his own subjective opinion about himself, not correlated with reality. This behavior is called narcissism.
The name "narcissism" comes from the name of a young man who, according to legend, did not do anything else, but only admired his own reflection in the waters of the stream and abandoned the love of a beautiful girl, which led to his transformation into a flower with an identical name.
Where is the line between pathological self-love and normal self-esteem? Usually the word "narcissism" is used to emphasize the pathological traits of a person's character, demonstrating his superiority over others, his uniqueness, and irreplaceability. Somewhere it borders on bragging, somewhere - on their own delusions about themselves and about other people.
They begin to talk about narcissism as a pathology, when narcissism oversteps the boundaries, and the narcissist begins to devalue the people around him, belittle their dignity, emphasize only the shortcomings.
People-narcissists are selfish and lack the ability to sympathize, they are jealous only at moments of breakup and after a while, because they do not know before that that someone can be better than them. Narcissists will not be in a relationship with you if their accomplishments are not occasionally praised.
Narcissists believe that their exclusivity gives them the right to commit other people to something.
Of course, having communicated with a narcissist, a person with an unstable and low self-esteem may fall into a state of self-flagellation and depression, but to a greater extent the narcissist injures his own psyche, and not the psyche of outsiders, as he may be offended by the non-recognition of his superiority by other people.
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