The "biggest epidemic of our time"? If numbers are increasing, I'm sure it's right in line with numbers for every other mental illness construct that's increasing at the same time, which is probably all of them except for the ones they've dropped or renamed or remixed.

Anyway, NPD isn't even a blip on the map statistics-wise. NIMH doesn't currently deem it worthy of mention in their annual statistics, even though other personality disorders make the cut.. (NIMH » Any Personality Disorder: "Disorders included in this section encompass antisocial personality disorder, avoidant personality disorder, and borderline personality disorder.")

And how could narcissism "in general" be the biggest epidemic of our time? What about war, famine, genocide, come on now. I think that type of generalized narcissism will eventually fall out of favor anyway (hopefully before Kimye's purported 2020 presidential run), because it has less and less currency all the time. Andy Warhol's prediction about everyone being famous for 15 minutes and all that. Is there really any value to being on television anymore, or having a photo liked by a thousand people you don't know, etc. etc.? It's so old hat.

Just my 2 cents.