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One of the surest ways to ruin our life is to be in a close relationship with a narcissist.

Whether it be a narcissist as a parent, husband, wife, colleague, or friend,

if we are forced to deal with a narcissist on a daily basis, we suffer.

But even worse than having a narcissist in our social orbit is with a narcissist on a daily basis, we suffer. But even worse than having a narcissist

in our social orbit is being a narcissist. In this video, we explore the character disorder

of narcissism, looking at what it consists of, what causes it, and why increasing numbers of

people are becoming narcissistic. Narcissism is based on two primary factors.

Firstly, a narcissist has an excess of self-admiration or a grandiose or inflated sense of self.

Narcissists, in other words, judge themselves to be superior to most other people and consider

themselves better looking, more intelligent, higher in social status,

more powerful, or more creative than they really are.

When we say that someone is narcissistic, writes the psychologist Donald Nathanson, we imply

the presence of beliefs about the self that cannot be substantiated.

The second primary characteristic of narcissism is a lack of empathy.

When the narcissist considers what actions to take, the feelings of others rarely factor

into their calculations.

Narcissists view other people as tools to be used to help them attain their wants and needs,

and one of their primary needs is to

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