NPD simplified...
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NP's Motto:
"I'm not happy 'til you're not happy."
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He believed himself to be a good person. Women believed it too. Sensing in him a ferocity of commitment that was rarely found in modern men, women had often allowed themselves to fall in love with him, surprising themselves--these wised-up, cautious women!--by the speed with which they charged outward into the really deep emotional water. And he didn't let them down. He was kind, understanding, generous, clever, funny, grown-up, and the sex was good, it was always good. This is forever, they thought, because they could see him thinking it too; they felt loved, treasured, safe. He told them--each of his women in turn--that friendship was what he had instead of family ties, and, more than friendship, love. That sounded right. So they dropped their defenses and relaxed into all the good stuff, and never saw the hidden twisting in him, the dreadful torque of his doubt, until the day he snapped and the alien burst out of his stomach, baring multiple rows of teeth. They never saw the end coming until it hit them. His first wife, Sara, the one with the graphic verbal gift, put it thus: "It felt like an ax-murder."
Excerpt: Salman Rushdie, "Fury" mentioned by member libbyagnes
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"When my husband was on jury duty, another potential juror was a therapist. When asked about NPD, the therapist sadly shook his head. ”I’ve actually never seen a client with NPD because they’re convinced they don’t have a problem,�? he said. “But they leave a high body count,�?he added. ”Their victims are the people who come to see me.�?BR>Author: Jan Marshall
"The severely narcissistic person will cripple you and then blame you for being crippled."
(Richard Babb, Author
Into the Matrix of the Narcissist, 2006)
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"A narcissist will murder his own parents, and beg mercy on the courts because he is an orphan."
(unknown)
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The narcissist is someone who, if you fall down and collapse, will step right over you and keep on going calling you stupid, lazy, inconsiderate, and blame you for blocking his way, and if questoned by people later why he left, will shout "I left because I was rushing trying to get her help."
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The Narcissist is someone who, if you compliment him on his muscles, and tell him he's good looking, will proceed to show you more muscles so he can hear you talk about how much you admire those too.
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A narcissist is someone who doesn't show up for visitations with his kids saying it hurts so much when he has to leave them.
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"Chaos, disorder, destruction -- my job here is done."
The fundamental beliefs of the narcissist include:
- "Since I am so superior, I am entitled to special treatment and privileges."
- "I don't have to be bound by the rules that apply to other people."
- "If others don't respect my status, they should be punished."
- "Other people should satisfy my needs."
- "Other people should recognize how special I am."
- "Since I am so talented, people should go out of their way to promote my career."
- "No one's needs should interfere with my own."
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Excerpt from Calgary Herald Nov 2/06 on the murder trial of Michael White.
"Two days after Michael White reported his pregnant wife missing after she left home for work, police secretly followed him to a field where he picked up two garbage bags containing bloody clothes and latex gloves a jury heard Thursday. White took the bags home and put them outside his Castledowns house for garbage pickup. The next day a police officer riding in a garbage truck seized the bags. White later told police he was being a "Good Samaritan" by picking up abandoned trash."
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"There is no more mercy in him than there is milk in a male tiger." (Coriolamus)
"God has given you one face and you make yourself another." (Hamlet)
"He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death." (H.H.Munro)
"He compresses the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know." (Abraham LIncoln)
"No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he's a dirty little beast." (W.S. Gilbert)
"His lack of education is more than compensated by his keen moral bankruptcy." (Woody Allen)
"He has an open mind, I can feel the draft." (Groucho Marx)
How to Think like a ?Corporate Narcissist
"There's been an increase in the survival rate of cancer patients with our new drug Spusplatin."
"Really?"
"Yes, 9.9 months vs 8.5 with the old drug."
"Is that significant?"
"Oh yeah, patients will be spending 20% more on our drugs now than before."
