I’m extremely skeptical of any non-academic discussion of narcissistic personality disorder, because in practice it gets used as a catch-all folk diagnosis for

I’m extremely skeptical of any non-academic discussion of narcissistic personality disorder, because in practice it gets used as a catch-all folk diagnosis for behavior we don’t like. (You can already see some sibling comments diagnosing famous CEOs with it!) The author acknowledges that “narcissistic collapse” is a term they made up with little evidence-based support, so how confident should we be that it’s a real thing at all?