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Nothing in excess
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Join Date: Sep 2008
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Nothing in excess
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Here
Posts: 7,496
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[rquote=2612385&tid=148226&author=NolasGirl]This word narcissism is being bashed around way too much. Narcissism is a very extreme and dysfunctional thing that can only really be applied to a minority of people in this world. To actually scientifically or clinically define someone as narcissist.. Relates to serious extremes in lack of empathy. And people are confusing it with selfishness, egotistical behaviour, facades etc. that were more evident on BB. And also in a lot of cases, defensiveness. But to call someone narcissistic.. it would have to be an extreme case.[/rquote]
There is more to the word 'narcissism' than just the personality disorder. Most people can recognise narcissistic traits in people. Emotional immaturity, attention seeking, pretentiousness, namedropping ("I'm very good friends with this CEO, celebrity, artist, etc") manipulativeness, bullying or having an inflated opinion of oneself. Recognising these characteristics in a person is a good way of steering clear of some incredibly unpleasant people.
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