If someone subjects someone to abuse, and they then excuse it by saying that they have been hurt before and dealt with it...that you will get over it. They pity you but show no obvious remorse. Is that considered a narcisitic person? Everything reverts back to them?
2006-09-26 02:11:08 · 10 answers · asked by K 1 in Health ➔ Mental Health
It is more or less sociopath than anything else. There may be some narcissism present but no one on this site could reasonably determine that because they have not witnessed the patterns of behavior in this person and do not know him/her. It sounds like they are using some avoidance and displacement tactics and may even have some inferiority issues. I suggest if at all possible you avoid this person or stop being around them, if it's parents seek professional and legal help for yourself because with that situation the parent will not succumb to your analysis or anyone else's and you are only the first throes of what will become a violent storm. Protect yourself with any means possible or available.
2006-09-26 04:21:44 · answer #1 · answered by Rick R 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is definitely an uncaring person. I don't know if they are narcisscistic, a doctor could say, but I'd guess...yeah! Or a sociopath.
If they are young and/or immature, not used to dealing with people as human beings with feelings (i.e., no one taught them how) they need to be taught that what they said did not help you understand that they know they did wrong. If you keep working on this point with them, they might not turn out bad and might become empathetic some day.
Some people can't, excuse me, won't. Those who won't very well might be what you asked about.
2006-09-26 09:18:26 · answer #2 · answered by *babydoll* 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mental health professionals are a discipline that's lost in the woods on a stormy night. Their diagnoses consist of putting a label they memorized in school on the souls of the suffering.
Read the clinical definition of narcissist and see if you can find any compassion for the person so defined. Everyone has some of the symptoms of a "narcissist" to some degree. But labels (excuse me, I mean diagnoses) and drugs don't help people to grow and to understand their options.
Cruelty from one person to another is particularly difficult to deal with. Especially if you're the person being hurt. If someone is hurting you and is indifferent to the pain they cause, either you can help them grow or get away from them. Don't expect a psychological label to help you or them.
2006-09-26 09:51:10 · answer #3 · answered by beast 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If the person manages to always make everything about them, that could be symptomatic of narcissistic personality disorder.
It is more likely, however, to mean that the person is a f%@#ing jerk.
The problem with psychiatric labels is that people are too quick to throw them around. I prefer to leave the psychology to the psychologists, and I prefer to avoid a$@holes rather than trying to figure out what's wrong with them. Life's too short!
2006-09-26 09:41:24 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some people still believe that it toughens someone up if they abuse them. Actually what it does is cause them to have no feelings of tenderness. (the victim).
Where this behavior could be narcissistic is that since the abuser may have been abused themselves, they figure if it was done to them and they survived, then the person they are abusing will too.
2006-09-26 11:09:29 · answer #5 · answered by Big Bear 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are trying to play psychologist with your friends, don't bother and certainly don't start calling this person silly names like narcisist. If you feel like someone in your life is treating you with an abusive attitude, you have to get away from them or convince them to seek professional help.
2006-09-26 09:13:59 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
well, more like a sadistic psychopath id say. if they were really narcisstic they would never even think of bothering to excuse it. Of course, there would be no pity either. Either way, they should be shunned by normal decent people
2006-09-26 09:14:05 · answer #7 · answered by rand a 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no it is a sociopath. how can you justify one crime by a previous one. that is excactly what is meant by the saying " two wrongs don't make a right ." It may be true that you can get over it but that is not the point is it.
2006-09-26 09:18:03 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
narcisism is self love -- Narcisus spent all of his time gazing at his reflection in a pool.
2006-09-26 09:21:07 · answer #9 · answered by reynwater 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would consider that person an A*shole! And avoid them !
2006-09-26 09:14:09 · answer #10 · answered by STONE 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋