Yeah, exactly - you get stuck loving your own reflection and forget to live life. How sad?What? Like banging twinks?

No its very real, and its also very sad but these people are broken and they need to be avoided like the plague.

Generally they are people that suffered emotional abuse or neglect as kids and their personality fractures. They are often the children of narcissists themselves, but sometimes its just their environment that can cause it. But its related to abuse and neglect, and the epidemic of single mothers is breeding these ****ers in huge numbers now.

Narcissistic personality disorder is a psychological defence mechanism that works on a spectrum. Its not confidence, which is what some people assume is narcissism. These people operate purely from a position of protecting their ego, because the image they have of themselves is the protective psychological shell they build as a result of the abuse they suffered. They have no real personality because one was not allowed to develop, instead what they have is a projection of a personality like a chameleon. The projection of that personality is based on what they need from the people around them.

This why they lie like they do. They cause friction between people. They spread rumours and gossip to destroy peoples reputations. They use people and manipulate people to get what they want. They view themselves through the lens of what other people do, and believe that this is how those people will view them. They will commit crimes and acts of violence to feed the ego.

The mistake is that people think its for attention. Its not for attention, its for fuel. Their ego is fuelled by any attention, good or bad it does not matter. Often the more damage they do, the more "fuel" they generate.

Covert narcissists are a clinical type. They tend to be women, but these narcs feign weakness and rarely engage in direct reputational attacks on people, but they are ruthless behind the scenes

An example would be that family member who meets the woman of his dreams, and she gradually extracts him from his family. Eventually he starts to resent his family, not see them or even take her side on small issues that should not even be issues. SHe might make it hard for grandparents to see the kids, or turn the kids against the grandparents.

This guy is a narc through and through, picked it up quickly with some of his posts.

He is the grandiose type, which is also a clinical type.

Cannot be trusted

Agreed. Weird how the demon within came to the surface at EOD's calling

Dag gone eod is a spirit hunter

Its easy to spot, especially in the stories he tells. He is a full blown narc.

He views people through the same lens that he views himself and his motivations, and he projects his views of himself and his motivations onto them in comparison. Nothing exists outside of how everything is a reflection of him or a reflection of whatever is going through his mind at the moment. He then makes acute judgements of these people

He will then act up based on where they may fit in relation to him and his ego. If they make him feel insecure, he will view them with derision and want to bring them down a peg if he can. He resents them. If they make him feel secure, he will view them with pity but would bring them into his orbit if given the opportunity because he would believe they would adore him. Its pretty ****ing pathetic, but its a mental illness and needs to be viewed as such.

What that means is that he does not see people for who they are, he sees them for what they are in comparison to his OWN view of himself at that particular time. He is incapable of forming genuine relationships, every relationship will be one where he tries to extract something.

You feel sorry for him, but know this guy is a wrecking ball to the people in his life and his posts really do need to be read with his mental illness taken into account

Wait you speak of eod or the Kevin dude everyone says is a narc in here

WiseOldApe

The vast majority of the people here are not narc's, not from what I have seen but I have not been posting here long either maybe that view will change.

WOA sticks out like a buzzing red light though.

Mind obligation

FWIW I've talked with WOA in the past and suggested that he might be narcissistic. He acknowledged that he might be and had wondered himself. He didn't deny the possibility.