When I was 20 I was diagnosed by a psychologist with having Narcissistic Personality Disorder. At first I was in denial about but over time I come to terms with my narcissism and the diagnosis started to make sense to me. A lot of my problems can be traced back to my unrealistic self image and lack of ability to relate with others.

There’s a lot of stigma towards NPD. I hope by making this thread I can help others understand that having NPD doesn’t inherently make you a bad person and NPD hurts the person with it as well.

  • SpaceFox:3OP
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    3 hours ago

    Definitely not. The opposite in fact. In my whole childhood my mom praised me like 3 times

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      2 hours ago

      Interesting. So attention seeking behaviour is possible to gain what you missed from your family?

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        2 hours ago

        I guess it’s all overcompensation. Everyone thought when I was a kid that I was slow, lazy, under achieving, ect…ect… So I just overcompensated in my head.