((Jimi)),

I tried to make it a point to make sure people reading my posts understood that all people have "some narcisism" in them. Also, that "narcisists do not know they are narcisists".

I think your contribution is good because you are expressing how painful it can be to be torn down when you don't realize you may have adapted some unhealthy ways of looking at life and others.

I honestly don't think people intentionally set out purposely to become a Narcisist.
Often that can happen as a result of how they were raised or had to deal with feeling "less than" in someway.

I had a therapist for a while that eventually told me that he was a narcisist and a habitual lier, he also became addicted to heroine. He too was "torn down" as you are expressing and finally realizing his reality, went to college to become a therapist.

What I am trying to explain to others more is to understand that they can be triggered by someone sensitive, even be mean to them, because of how they are reminded of their own deep insecurities. Which is what you are also expressing in your post.

What happens jimi is that when someone is very empathetic and sensitive and are on the recieving end of dealing with Narcisists, they can truely feel very threatened and as pegasus put it, like an idiot, when they are not.

I am trying to help pegasus try to look the people in her environment with a better understanding of what they are so that she doesn't have to feel so threatened by them.

Thanks for your input. I hope you continue to make gains and improve inspite of they way you have had to experience "narcisism".

Open Eyes