Episode 332 - The Dr. Cloud Show Live - Special Edition: A Spotlight on Narcissism
The Boundaries.me Podcast
Greg Bowler
4.7 • 815 Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2022
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
In this special edition of the podcast we spotlight Dr. Cloud’s insights on the subject of narcissism.
Dr. Cloud's introduction covers the over-attribution of narcissism, what it is, and what it is not.
Shelly is seeing signs of narcissism in a man she's dating. She want to know: Can narcissists change?
Hayley has a narcissistic mom. She's been "gray rocking" her and it's working, but her sisters don't practice it. Dr. Cloud discusses how all narcissists are not the same and there isn't one strategy that's going to work for all of them. Many techniques can be employed.
Cheri wants to know if narcissists are aware of how their actions are perceived by others. Is it automatic for them to be manipulative, like a defense mechanism? Is there a way to make them see what they're doing to stop the behavior?
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, Dr. Henry Cloud here. |
| 0:09.5 | You're listening to a rebroadcast of the Dr. Cloud Show, which is my live radio program |
| 0:14.7 | that you can find on YouTube.com slash Dr. Henry Cloud or Facebook.com slash Dr. Henry Cloud. |
| 0:22.1 | If you want to listen live or even call in, let's take a listen. |
| 0:27.1 | Okay. So let's hop into it. |
| 0:30.0 | You know, in the beginning of the program, if you never tune in, |
| 0:33.5 | I talked a little bit about something that's related to the topic while the people are calling in. |
| 0:39.6 | Here's today's kind of musings. |
| 0:43.2 | Because we hear a lot about this. |
| 0:47.5 | Narcissistic personality disorder. |
| 0:59.5 | It's something you're a lot about, like a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot about. And that's good. I mean, it's good for people, I think, you know, |
| 1:06.0 | we ought to all like, you know, to understand what that is. |
| 1:12.8 | The problem is that a lot of times, |
| 1:15.0 | when we hear it on this show, |
| 1:16.8 | is similar to when people talk about borderline personality, |
| 1:20.2 | the problem is that a lot of times, |
| 1:25.8 | you know, it's very nonspecific when people use it. |
| 1:32.2 | And that's also, I think, part of the problem in the bigger world itself is that sometimes |
| 1:39.2 | people say, well, you know, my husband's got narcissistic personality disorder or my wife or my sister or my brother or |
| 1:48.5 | somebody. And then they'll say, and you know, they don't change. And that's just not true. I mean, |
| 1:57.4 | it's just like borderline personality disorder. This is like, it's this like, it's just like borderline personality disorder. |
| 2:12.1 | This is like, this is like, people have been treating people with NPD and people with BPD for decades. |
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