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So, maybe there's a "narcissism spectrum disorder" ? But I think that might be over-medicalizing things.

• SpicyLemonZest 4y ago
  Probably. Like most psychological disorders, NPD is diagnosed by getting a high score on a specialized evaluation, so you could easily describe someone who gets a score that’s not quite beyond the threshold as being on the narcissism spectrum. But it doesn’t seem practical to say that an otherwise normal person who is “showing arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes” has a medical condition.
• bloopernova 4y ago
  There probably is, but its symptoms are very much intermingled with those of ADHD and a whole slew of mental conditions. Reading the article, I recognized a collapse in myself after a lost a deeply-valued job in a horribly-unfair way. I was fired after a new sysadmin pulled drives from a still-active storage array, after I told them to pull drives from the shut down array. The reason given was that I didn't write a change request, when there was no change control system in place. I met some of the conditions in the article, but none of the abusive-towards-others ones - I didn't accuse my then-wife of being responsible, I didn't gaslight or lash out verbally. I withdrew into myself and became deeply depressed and anxious. Back on topic after too much personal sharing, I think everyone has aspects of NPD, just as everyone is on a scale of other personality traits. The more we understand these scales and spectrums, the better we'll be able to deal with negative events, I feel.