Hi hazn,

What I meant is that a person with empathy may not be displaying traits of NPD but their message to the world via the internet, the forums, I liken those messages to community service announcements where their experiences are from their point of view about emotional distress they have experienced and/or conquered to benefit their fellow man so that they are led down the right path. To me the advertising/preaching of the message is highly narcissistic due to the 'do what I say' or you will never be worth anything to anyone element.

So along the same lines, I think that anyone enabling an NPD is suffering of course, but to me, the release of their suffering on the internet is narcissistic because it gains attention. I suppose it just depends on how you view it and everyone views it from their own perspective. Which is also narcissistic LOL