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 DEFINITION
The narcissistic disorder of the personality is characterized by a general boss of grandeur, need for admiration and lacking in empathy (aptitude to "tune in" emotionally to the others) that starts at the beginning of the adult age and it happens in diverse contexts.
HOW IS IT EVIDENT?
- He has a grand autoimportance sense; for example, it exaggerates the achievements and capacities, hopes to be admitted like Superior without a few proportionate achievements, etc. (It is habitual in the narcissists to overvalue his capacities and to exaggerate his knowledge and qualities, for which they usually give the sensation of being boastful or presumptuous persons)
- It worries about fantasies of unlimited success, power, brightness, beauty or love fancied (It can be delivered to conceptions and thoughts on the admiration or the privileges that "some time ago that owe him" and to be compared favorably with the famous or privileged people)
- He believes that it is "special" and the only and that it can only be comprised for, or it can only be related to other persons (or institutions) that are special or of high level (they attribute those persons to whom the qualities are related of being "only", "perfect" or having "talent")
- It demands an excessive admiration (It is a symptom that there denotes an abaja self-esteem and a big worry for being right in the work and for how they are seen by the others)
- It is very pretentious; for example, it has unreasonable expectations of receiving a dealing of special favor or of that fulfill automatically his expectations (for example, they can think that they do not have why to 'stand in line. All this can cause the development of the others, perform already conscious or unconscious form)
- It is exploitative; for example, it extracts profit of the others to reach his own goals (they hope that one gives them everything what they wish, without importing what it supposes for the others, and they can assume that the others are completely interested in his well-being)
- He lacks empathy: it is unwilling to recognize or to be identified by the feelings and needs for the others
- Often he envies to the others or believes that the others envy him to him (they can go so far as to devaluate persons who have received a congratulation on having thought that they are more deserving than the same one)
- It presents behaviors or arrogant attitudes or haughty
HOW ARE THESE SUBJECTS?
The narcissistic subjects possess a very vulnerable self-esteem, being because of it very sensitively to the "affront" of the criticism or the frustration; as regards this, the criticism can go so far as to obsess them and do that they feel sunken and empty. Another symptom is the deterioration of his social relations as a result of his pretentiousness and constant need for admiration. Another symptom is the incapability to risk nothing for the possibility of frustration that it bears.
PREDOMINANCE
It is believed that it happens between 2 % and 16 % in clinical populations, and less than 1 % of the general population endures it; also, between 50 % and 70 % of the diagnosed persons of narcissistic disorder are males. On the other hand, we have to bear in mind that the narcissistic symptoms are especially frequent in the adolescence, which does not mean that necessary the subject is going to present in the future a narcissistic disorder.
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