Narcissistic Personality Disorder - Chapter 2 (Deep Dive) (2018 Rerun)
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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🗓️ 18 February 2024
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June 27, 2018
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| 0:00.0 | Hey deserving listeners, let me tell you a story about someone who has narcissistic personality disorder. This is a profile of a semi-real person and |
| 0:18.1 | I've changed a number of the details to mask their identity. If this person were to hear this, they would not even recognize themselves. |
| 0:27.0 | So that's, you know, that's the common practice for us therapist. But I'm describing actual events, |
| 0:36.5 | if that makes any sense. |
| 0:38.8 | OK, so he grew up in an alcoholic family. |
| 0:44.0 | His childhood was very rough. |
| 0:46.7 | His parents were too busy or too distracted to give him any tension or any love. |
| 0:52.4 | So he turned to sports and grades as a way to gain attention from other |
| 0:57.4 | people including his family. But he never really felt good about himself. In |
| 1:01.9 | fact, deep down he had extremely low self-esteem. |
| 1:06.0 | Like really, really low self-esteem, like deep shame. He hated himself. |
| 1:12.0 | But he was good at sports and he knew how to get people to like him. |
| 1:16.0 | So he distracted himself with, he distracted himself with sports and also by being entertaining to other people. He was the clown, he was |
| 1:26.7 | the good boy. But when he was home, he was easily hurt and he was often very moody and very distant. |
| 1:36.0 | And if someone in his family made fun of him, he really was hurt easily and he would think about it day and night and he would react very |
| 1:46.2 | badly when people teased him and he spent a lot of energy making sure that no one |
| 1:51.8 | could tease him so energy making sure that no one could tease him. |
| 1:53.5 | So he made sure that his hair was perfect, that his outfits were just right. |
| 2:00.7 | And he also adapted by leaning into the ridicule at times somewhat. |
| 2:05.0 | So he started wearing weird outfits. |
| 2:09.0 | That way if someone made fun of him, |
| 2:11.0 | he knew that his fashion sense was just better than the average |
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