TO BE DIAGNOSED AS SOMEONE WITH NARCISSISTIC PERSONALITY DISORDER.

By: Khalif Barkhadle
Digital Journalist
Published On: 10th July 2024

To be accurately diagnosed as someone with narcissistic personality disorder, a person has to meet at least five of the following nine diagnostic criteria:

1: Grandiose sense of self-importance (e.g., exaggerates achievement and talents, expects to be recognized as superior without commensurate achievements);

2: Fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love;

3: Belief in being “special” and unique and can only be understood by, or should be associated with, other special or high-status people (or institutions)

4: Requires excessive admiration;

5: Sense of entitlement, i.e., unreasonable expectations of especially favourable treatment or automatic compliance with his or her expectations;

6: Interpersonally exploitive, i.e., takes advantage of others to achieve his/her own ends;

7: Lacks empathy; is unwilling to recognize or identify with the feelings and needs of others;

8: Envious of others or believes that others are envious of him/her;

9: Arrogant, haughty behaviours or attitudes

● Due to a variety of factors that include childhood trauma, narcissists never developed a sense of self and were stunted emotionally at a very young age.
● They…