This is the Ramsey Call of the Day, part of the Ramsey Network.

Now, if you don't know, Dr. John Deloney has his own show, aptly named the Dr. John Deloney show.

And John, you get a lot of calls about narcissism.

And that can be a squishy word.

People have a lot of opinions on what that means.

Can you help us understand this?

Yeah, and we got this article here, but narcissism and how they have toxic money habits that often go ignored or unnoticed.

But I think it's important to step back and say okay

what's a narcissist that's a word that is way overused in our culture it's just someone I don't like

it's it's a we have a lot of jerks and a lot of exhausted people a pathological narcissist worthy of

the diagnosis of narcissism personality disorder and PD, like that's a

those are very different levels. So clinically speaking, narcissistic personality means someone

has a very inflated sense of self-importance, a need for admiration, a lack of empathy.

As my friend, Dr. Cloud, Henry Cloud, says, narcissistic people need to feel special.

They have an inflated self-worth.

They're always looking to feel better,

and they will use you for those means.

To prop them up, you're a pawn in their scheme.

Think of a dementor.

I'm going to get my spirit and my self-worth by taking from you.

That happened in Space Jam.

I remember that.

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