Recently I came across a book about a woman struggling to deal with a husband and then later a boss with Narcissistic disorder. It was actuality a kind of romance novel, that was actually dealing with the disorder , at the end of the book the author puts a note page explaining how in her research she was amazed by how widespread the abuse of narcissistic disorders are. She even gives web site and blogs to go to. From what I have read I put together a check list to see if you have one in your life.
It goes something like this, the person knows that he or she is better, smarter, or more talented than others. Loves competition but is a poor loser. Has fantasies of doing great things or becoming famous, and wants to be treated like the fantasies are true.
They have little interest in what other are thinking or feeling, unless the want something from that person. Likes to drop names, and feels it is important to associate with only the RIGHT people. Doesn’t hesitate to take advantage of anyone if it furthers there goals. They will put themselves in a higher category than everyone else. This person expects to change rules as they see fit because they are special. Any criticisms you have of them they think is motivated by jealousy, and they regard anything less then worship by you to be rejection.
They will readily explain why a person that is well known in the community is really not all that great, and often complains of being mistreated or misunderstood, sometimes they will even use religion to hid behind and believe they are doing God’s work . You will find that people either love or hate this person, and despite there overly high opinion of him or herself, they are quite intelligent and talented.
When they are pointing out your faults they tell you they have proof of your supposedly wrong doings but you are never privy to this proof. And in their eyes they can never do wrong. When things don’t go there way they can have fits of rage, willingly slam things, make actuations against others who they find fault with, even being extremely rude and then tell you that you made them do it.
If you know of someone that fits most of this description and they are not a member of royalty then you should beware or run the other way, because you have just encountered an emotional vampire. How many have you encountered? Surprising isn’t it.
I know this has nothing to do with diabetes but didn’t it take your mind of all the things we deal with daily as diabetics? And we thought we had problems with our diabetes!!!
