Fortunately young therapists all over are being taught to abandon pathology. I maintain that I've never met anyone with npd because narcissism is a trait and not a disorder. Therefore I've never been hurt by anyone suffering from npd, just humans impaired by a deep sense of worthless who've chosen to emotionally terrorize others rather than sit with themselves and do the work necessary to change. Npd is what western doctors term deep self involvement that they're unable to treat, nothing more. BPD, Schitzophrenia, depression and other very truly chemical disorders ought to be labeled and we should be focusing our time on people suffering from MI's like those instead of quizzing folks plagued by their self involvement. The west is very good at creating excuses for depravity when it suits them.

I think most alleged narcissists are insecure about their diagnosis but enjoy the attention they get on account of being supposedly unfeeling and indefinitely delusional in the MI community and outside of it. Unrealized sociopaths, truly exceptional they think themselves to be. Meanwhile sociopaths are moving in silence and running companies, countries and more on account of their real propensity for high achievement.