Is he/she in treatment? Is it helping?
Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) is a serious emotional disturbance characterized by a grandiose, or extremely exaggerated, sense of self-importance. Individuals with this disorder lack empathy for other people but need constant admiration from them.
2006-09-20 02:22:05 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Family & Relationships ➔ Marriage & Divorce
No experience, only sympathy for someone married to one. You have your work cut out for you and your future probably will involve a divorce. Hopefully you will take time to regroup afterward, recognize how you managed to match up with such a buffoon, and change your criteria. All too often, people will seek out the same type.
2006-09-20 02:25:43 · answer #1 · answered by finaldx 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have a sister in law who fits the diagnostic criteria for NPD. And treatment is not possible as they don't see they are the problem. NPD is particularly resistance to treatment. As narcissists age they can mimic empathy to some extent but it's not true empathic responses it's only learned behaviors. Narcissists like anti-social PD do not have a sense of responsible guilt.. While the NPD will not commit crime activity to ASPD and NPD are generally paired for many who are diagnosed with the disorder.
It is unusual for people suffering from narcissism to seek treatment for their problems, or even to consider that they might have a problem. The fears that narcissistic people have of being inadequate make it very difficult for them to imagine having “something wrong” with them, and they certainly would not feel safe in acknowledging these fears to another person. They are typically very threatened by the notion of entering psychotherapy, since they fear the result would be that the therapist would be critical and rejecting towards them. Essentially, they imagine that the therapist would relate to them as their parents did. They are very likely to be disdainful and disparaging in response to the notion of psychotherapy. Unfortunately, narcissism is a relatively stable condition and tends to remain relatively unchanged over one’s lifetime. Current treatments for psychological disorders have little help to offer narcissistic people.
If you are married to a narcissist the best treatment for you will be a divorce. Narcissists do not change.
Read this attached article:
http://www.alanrappoport.com/Co-Narcissism%20Article.pdf
2006-09-20 10:20:28 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Aren't these the kind of men who murder their wives for looking at other men? My sister has NPD, I just avoid her as much as is humanly possible.
2006-09-20 09:25:12 · answer #3 · answered by Lola 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋