Hey deserving listeners, this episode is a deep dive on narcissism and narcissistic personality disorder.

I recently sent out a survey to all my patrons on Patreon asking them what sort of deep dives they wanted me to do, and narcissistic personality disorder was the clear winner.

So this is for all of you patrons. I've been wanting to do a deep dive on narcissism for years. I even bought a number of books years ago just for this episode and I've been compiling research and

Whatnot, but other things have taken priority other deep dives other professional endeavors

also I knew that this episode would possibly be one of the most

if not the most involved episodes I've ever done before and it was always scary to me I would see it on my list of

episodes to do and I'd be like oh boy that's that's gonna be like two or three

months of of research and note taking and thinking and talking and blah

and so it and it was but I finally have time to do it now so and the patrons motivated me by voting for this as their most

Preferred deep dive and this episode is going to be a long one I have several pages of notes. I have let me see here.

I have 55 pages of notes my God. Based on other episodes with page length I'm

guessing that this episode's going to be four hours long maybe five

more than five hours long I don't know there there's just so much to talk about you know what is

narcissism what's the history going back to Freud and before Freud? Are we becoming more

narcissistic as a society? Are there movies that depict narcissism well? Does Trump

have narcissistic personality disorder? What about narciss narciss how do we treat narcissistic personality disorder?

What's the conceptualization of it?

Is it even treatable to begin with?

And there's really just so much bad information

about narcissism on the internet.

I couldn't find a single resource that explained narcissistic personality disorder well enough

for me to hold something up and say like this is what you need to read in order to really get

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