You know you're a Narcissist when...

So how do you know you are the alpha narcissist?

You dont. Because its not you. Its me. I'm the alpha.

Your comments make it seem like you're insulted my comments even though they're not meant to be insulting - just truthful. I'm just conversing and commenting.

You know you're a narcissist when you sit back and watch the world burn in this forum.

I apologise sincerely. Its the first month on Prozac for me. My perceptions are probably off. I will try to be more aware of that. I hope you wont hold my weirdness against me. What I feel is playful and fun, and if Its not coming across that way, I apologise again for my awkwardness. Ive been depressed a long time. Its probably natural to be socially awkward popping out of that.

No serious offense intended.

I'm still the alpha, of course.

Self-aggrandizement fulfills what need, Teacake?

So just out of curiosity...does a depressed narcissist experience low self-esteem and self-hatred? Or are narcs immune to these symptoms?

When I get depressed I don't experience those symptoms.

That is a good question glok. Not just to Teacake, but others too. I think that people who have NPD never got out of or beyond "the world revolves around me" stage and they never developed empathy. Empathy is considered a weakness, well, maybe it is. You know the saying, "Only the good die young".

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At the moment I am filling the forums need for an alpha narcissist. But Its not self aggrandizement. I didn't expect to need to be the alpha. It just happens that I am.

You are welcome for my service.

I have experienced that they do. A narcissistic friend who never let on that he was suffering, except through overeating and blowing up to twice his right size, said when he began therapy, "í no longer feel all the time like people are looking at me thinking how horrible I am when they look at me".

I have experienced both low self-esteem and self-hatred. but, I understand it is not typical.

From what I understand from the literature... a true narcissist cannot really understand what is wrong with him, so he probably wouldn't feel depressed or have low self-esteem. Most true narcissists suffer from the delusion that being a narcissist is a good thing, and see no reason to stop their harmful behavior.

You know you're a narcissist when you feel the overwhelming urge to punch a braggart *loud, dramatic cough* in the throat but can't be bothered to waste your energy on further fantasy, knowing it will give them a reaction they feel entitled to...

As for Secretum's query -- I don't get drops in my self-esteem when in a depressive spell. I get the physical symptoms with appetite, weight, energy level, & sleep disturbance. And irritability over said symptoms.

Stop reading my mind. It's annoying.

I'm the exact same way. ****. Haha.

Soul sistah.

So the person who cannot resist the compulsion to feed the narcissist that entitled reaction, is that person an inverted narcissist or just supply?

The person who 'cannot resist'...is fallible. The person who feels entitled, is fallible.

Knowing the difference...makes one infallible.

That equation, makes you the the supply.

That observation, makes me................smile.

Yeah, I do, but then again I don't know if I'm actually a narcissist.

A PseuddhaBuddha!

When you are so bored by other people...

So I have been lingering... and apparently I am nosy...but is teacake a narc or not and everyone dislikes the person cause they are a faker or is teacake a real narc that is just annoying the **** out of people?

She's not really annoying me...but I believe she said she has not been dx an NPD...which makes her a lurker taking the p**s...

I just enjoy picking her apart to get a reaction. I don't care what she is or claims to be. It passes the time. *hears, off in the distance, an incoming reaction*

Who's Teacake? I've never heard of her.

*yawns*

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