Hey guys, welcome back to Preview Alliance podcast. This is Sarah and I've got our favorite therapist, Whitney. Hello, Whitney. Hey, friends. Whitney. We have not covered this topic, but I swear it's like a buzzword.

And it's became, you know, it's like so-and-so is a narcissist or this is narcissistic

traits or and you're kind of going, well, what is a narcissist?

Is everybody really a narcissist around me? Because it seems

like that is what, I mean, if you leave and look like TikTok, Instagram, you know, you have all

these therapists and psychologists and psychiatrists doing these very popular rules. I mean,

it's resonating with people. So I'm like, let's talk about it.

Yes.

So narcissism is a personality disorder.

And more often than not, personality disorders are rooted in trauma versus genetics.

So we talk about if your parents experience depression, anxiety, OCD, bipolar disorder,

schizophrenia, things like that, there is significant genetics that you have to be aware of,

and it puts you at a higher risk. Personality disorders differ because they are rooted in trauma.

Now that being said, if someone does have a narcissistic parent or authority figure

during their formative years, are they higher risk to be a narcissist themselves?

Absolutely, because they've learned it.

They have learned it.

To them, that is their norm.

So it's a lot.

It is.

It's terribly sad.

It's a lot of learned behaviors that are normalized because what you grow up with in

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