Narcissistic Personality Disorder Analysis

Hey! Why aren’t people looking at me?! I am clearly so much better than you will ever be! I just got an enormous raise at my fancy new job and I’ve only been there for two weeks! I am obviously a million times better than you, so I will no longer waste my time speaking to somebody like you. The statements made from up above are just a few things people could hear from a person suffering with Narcissistic Personality disorder. What exactly is Narcissistic Personality Disorder? Narcissistic Personality Disorder according to (Mayoclinic, 2014) “is a medical condition where a person has an over inflated sense of self-importance.” NPD can’t be cured, however, treatment by a medical professional may help because it is a condition that has to
Most narcissists avoid having children because they do not want to have to nurture and hold the hand of their offspring throughout their life. If a narcissist is to have children, they will have hit the jackpot psychologically speaking. They will have all of the power and control that they could ever imagine. The child will not tell their parent no or try to rebel against the rules that have been set for them. According to (Meyers, 2014) “The child of the narcissist realizes early on in their life that he or she exists to provide a reflection of the parent and to serve the parent, not the other way around.” Complete control over someone else is the one thing a narcissist needs to survive, and it's the one thing they will try overly hard to achieve. In reality, the life of a narcissist is ultimately pretty depressing and sad from the perspective of a normal person. “Young children of narcissists learn early in life that everything they do is a reflection on the parent to the point that the child must fit into the personality and behavioral mold intended for them.” Children have to face overbearing amounts of anxiety and fear from such a young age that they consistently have to put away their own personality to please their parent by following the ideal of the parent. If the children fail to please the narcissistic parents by not coping with the personality the parent seeks then the children face punishment. The parent(s) will essentially outmode the child by avoiding the young child, or ignoring them for hours, days, or weeks. With young children the parent suffering from narcissistic personality disorder is extremely hard to understand. Imagine what it would be like trying to understand a narcissistic parent as a young child! The parent really screws the child in essence because they make it where they are incapable of being a normal person because all the child knows is what the parent expects of them. These children begin to build