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Originally Posted by marmaduke
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As for the post on narcissists not being insecure and actually being psychopaths, this is not at all true, by the version of narcissism I use it by the dsm version. Of course there are narcissists who do terrible things... But this notion of narcissism is completely false.
The DSM version states that the cause of narcissium is still unknown. Could genetic, could be enviromental, could be both.
The narcissists Ive known have NOT been insecure, this 'insecure, false self' stuff is actually totally unproven, its simply a guess from Freud 100 years ago.
People are very loath to change old ideas.
IMO experiance its mostly genetic, couple that with a dysfuntional upbringing and you have a full blown narc.
Narcissists are not the same as psychopaths, but all psychpaths are narcissists.
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I've also never known a Narcissist to be insecure except when I walk by breezily and shatter their egos... Then of course they try to build that back up and can look pretty pathetic, but that's not because they're naturally insecure; it's because I'm an asshole to Narcissists... Lol.
I'm definitely a highly narcissistic being, and unlike Narcissists I can admit that with no problem. With straight up Narcissists, in my experience they HATE it when someone points out their narcissism to them. When someone calls me narcissistic I just say, "thanks for noticing!" and continue with my business, ha!