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Originally Posted by Tauren
A qualified therapist would never label someone NPD unless they have the requisite number of traits. Lay people, however, are inclined to label anyone they don't like as having a personality disorder.
You seriously insulted your therapist by saying that, by the way. NOBODY goes into it for the money. It's too hard.
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Spot on about lay people. I have heard so many people say, "oh my ex was such an asshole he/she MUST have been a sociopath/narcissist/psychopath/whatever" and I often say, "well, it's possible that he/she was just an asshole, why pathologize it?"
