Is Narcissist Self-aware, Introspective? (Global Meeting on Stress Management, March 2021)

With severe emotional deficits, the narcissist may be self-aware and knowledgeable about Narcissistic Personality Disorder, but these do not lead to healing, merely to behaviour modification.
Narcissists balance a sadistic superego and a demanding and fantastic False Self. Narcissists describe themselves as machines or automata.
When they do gain self-awareness and engage in soul-searching it is in order to enhance their skills at attracting and maintaining their sources of narcissistic supply.
Narcissists balance a sadistic superego and a demanding and fantastic False Self. Narcissists describe themselves as machines or automata.
When they do gain self-awareness and engage in soul-searching it is in order to enhance their skills at attracting and maintaining their sources of narcissistic supply.
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[@Makewayproduction]

Dr. Sam Vaknin taught me my most valuable lesson in life. Look at yourself and try understand why you excepted people like this into your life. I realised I had no boundaries. For me boundaries were key before my life started changing for the better. Thank you Sam for your wonderful work.

[@pelletier4432]

Invaluable knowledge in trying to understand the labyrinth of complexities the narcissist faces. It helps to look at this objectively in order to mitigate negative emotional reactions to their behavior.

[@agiejones7651]

Hearing you 💯🙌🙏🙏🙏

[@ktp.]

Thanks to Sam, I have to come understand what I was dealing with. My approach was never to feed the rage when he would get into tirades and fits of controlling behaviour. I never fed it. I realized it was coming from a very dark place from his past. He was always feeling helpless and anxious. This manifested in frustrated rants about himself - unable to reconcile his emotions with that cognition that something about him is not right. He seemed really self-aware during these. Recently he said the neighbours are spreading rumours about him and he confronted them. It fits Sam's description of this decline into paranoia that is all-consuming with age.

[@Putsim]

Great talk

[@antonmxx]

sDear Sam, Is the mortification specific to narcissists? Can non-narc experience it or, if not, what is the closest equivalent? And, if a person has experienced the mortification, does it mean that (s)he is the narc or it can originate from a different source? Regards.

[@samvaknin]

Mortification is unique to narcissists and narcissistic borderlines.

[@antonmxx]

@@samvaknin thank you.

[@rodneymolidorjr.6095]

If I'm a narcissist, and I'm believing all of this, I am very scared. A hall of mirrors? What future can such a person hope for? I will sleep on this and see what my dreams tell me.

[@littlelily4]

Maybe it depends on where you are on the spectrum ? I'm sure there's hope. I had strong symptoms of bpd and after therapy and medication, loving colleagues I feel like the rest of it is going to slowly disappear. Why couldn't you feel better too ?