* Don’t get caught in the trap of always trying to please a narcissist. Also, protect your sensitivity. Refrain from confiding your deepest feelings to someone who won’t cherish them. * Show how something will be to their benefit. To successfully communicate with narcissists, frame things ...
It’s not in the nature of a narcissist to bow out quietly. If you have played your cards right and you have successfully beaten them in their game, then comes the last step or last scene of their elaborate play: humiliate you. In their book, they are now close to losing, and that ...
every day, while you’re both at work. When you know how to deal with a long distance relationship, you understand that it’s simply not realistic or healthy to expect this. You might want to FaceTime before bed every single night, but things like different schedules and time zone changes...
Surprisingly, it’s forgiveness, not guilt, that increases accountability. Researchers have found that taking a self-compassionate point of view on a personal failure makes people more likely to take personal responsibility for the failure than when they take a self-critical point of view. They al...
I would be surprised if Ama Narcissist actively desired to make it difficult for an agent who fell in love with her writing to contact her. And I would be downright flabbergasted if the e-mailing submitter that just didn’t think to include a title page with his Word document hadn’t ...
Also readHOW TO DEAL WITH HAVING AN ESTRANGED ADULT CHILD. This Monday-morning quarterbacking neglects some basic facts about humans: You Can’t Control Other People We surely have influence over our children, but we do not mold them like clay. When they don’t turn out the way we planne...
room, and despite the lice they gifted me, I loved it. Until money dried up and suddenly I was, once again, homeless. I’d moved in there after I was discharged from theinpatient psych ward, in which I was able to successfully detox after asuicideattempt. Got some free ECT t...
1 Throughout this manuscript we use a number of examples illustrating behaviors typically associated with narcissistic CEOs. Our intention is not to identify specific CEOs as nar- cissists but, rather, to illustrate narcissistic behaviors. While the CEOs mentioned may or ma...
The term "borderline narcissist" is sometimes used to refer to people with both conditions, but it is important to note that it is not a diagnosis. It may be used informally to refer to someone with borderline personality disorder (BPD) who also has narcissistic personality disorder (NPD). ...
If social interactions don’t go for you as well as you would like and you sometimes tend to put your foot in your mouth during conversations, you may be asking yourself: “Am I socially awkward?” Drawing from my experience as a social confidence coach, I want to explain the characterist...