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Makes sense - narcissists have poor barriers, are the most likely to absorb other peoples' emotions and attempt to modify them. People with disordered emotiona
by skim_milk 5y ago
Makes sense - narcissists have poor barriers, are the most likely to absorb other peoples' emotions and attempt to modify them. People with disordered emotional regulation (including anxiety) tend to attach to people that regulate their emotions for them and are more likely to pair up with narcissists. Not a ground-breaking study, but a really interesting way of gathering data to prove what therapists have been saying for a while but without much data to back themselves up.
- mckirk 5y agoThanks for the insight! I'd never thought about this way, but it makes a lot of sense intuitively. Did you formulate that yourself, or is there some source that might hold similar nuggets of wisdom?
- skim_milk 5y agoSam Vaknin is one of the leading experts on narcissism, he says this all the time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzj7wouSe7A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzj7wouSe7A might cover this topic. Also, I wouldn't trust anyone on YouTube on the subject of narcissism other than Sam and the channel BorderlinerNotes if you want to keep studying this, there are heaps of trash on Youtube on this subject.