Good for you! @SW-User

@Blondie1977 Thanks. It's been a really rough road and this past year has been scary and challenging, but I have great friends here who have helped me through it and I'm so much stronger now.

Thanks for the BA! ☺

@Northwest Yep. They will never accept or acknowledge it.

Their is no medication or treatment @Northwest

@Blondie1977 Psychotherapy is the recommended course of action, but it all depends on how old the person is, and what caused the condition. In general, if you are a Narcissist, the purpose of Psychotherapy, is to get you to:

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Accept and maintain real personal relationships and collaboration with co-workers

Recognize and accept your actual competence and potential so you can tolerate criticisms or failures

Increase your ability to understand and regulate your feelings

Understand and tolerate the impact of issues related to your self-esteem

Release your desire for unattainable goals and ideal conditions and gain an acceptance of what's attainable and what you can accomplish
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One of the biggest mistake, people make in a relationship, is that they think they can change someone. You really can't. Especially a narcissist. If they "show" change, it's to appease, but they will resume their behavior, when it's convenient for them to do so.

Right, until you are in too deep@SageWanderer

@SageWanderer Sounds like my situation. And her not being diagnosed doesn't make them not one. I think some have tendencies but may be aren't a full on Narc. But then again there different types

True!!@DoubleRings

i suspect my dad might be a narcissist but not diagnosed

@Blondie1977 here i used the term "small percentage" and denoted the mathematical statement of 5-6% to clarify. its in the maths not necessarily the word.

I could have said a [b]large[/b] percentage are not narcissistic (94-95%) and that would be as true

i prefer not to use (and i try to avoid) the word "very" as i follow the recommendation of James Watson (the DNA guy) who advises against using the word "very" in scientific terms as this is clarified by the statistic

in relative terms, the word narcissic is often used and increasingly referred to in peoples behaviour. In reality the rate of [i]diagnostic[/i] narcissism is lower than what might be perceived in reality, hence the use of the "small" identifier

@yeronlyman that's one in twenty who have been diagnosed. Now how many narcissists are going to get diagnosed? Let's safely say one in three. So the percentage jumps to three out of every seventeen people.

@abe182 though i accept the risk of under diagnosis, i think its not as prevalent as we may think as they use extrapolation statistics to form estimation. lots of medical statistics are formed that way.

i believe narcisstic behaviour is prevalent but pathological narcissism is low at 5-6%

So sorry@Onmywaytochange

Me too@ProdigalSummer

Bet that wasn’t easy @PervertedPrincessOfDeath

@Blondie1977 I've been in therapy since i was 7 😒

it’s a personality issue more than self admiration in a mirror @mathsman

True@mathsman

@DoubleRings
No, it's a psychological condition.

That’s hard too@SW-User