A very important topic, one I'm glad to see here. I think personality disorders should be taught at school, since people are very likely to encounter people wit

A very important topic, one I'm glad to see here. I think personality disorders should be taught at school, since people are very likely to encounter people with them in their lives, and not understanding them can lead to big problems. I'm a child of two NPD sufferers. My mother had severe vulnerable narcissism, and my father had aggressive grandiose narcissism. They both had NPD proper, as it was clear that their narcissism was driven and accompanied by deep rooted psychological distress of some kind. My mother was such an emotional wreck that she could barely function, and my father dealt with his own demons by filling every waking hour with work to distract himself. They both came from vicious childhoods. The problem is that you presume, like everyone does, that your parents, or perhaps partners and coworkers, are just normal people. They look normal, they behave for the most part like normal people. But under the surface, they're really not. And if you had them as parents, you don't come away unscathed, not by a long shot. I only realised this stuff in my thirties, after decades wondering why I wasn't like everyone else, and why my life was going such a bad way, full of suffering and desperation. So much pain could have been avoided if I'd known and understood. Now I know about NPD and the effect it has on children of its sufferers, so much about me makes sense now, and I've been able to start healing myself. It is not right that this stuff is just being left under the radar, in the backdrop of our society. It needs to be brought out into the open, and challenged, and addressed. It's a hard one though. The problem is that NPD overlaps so heavily with evil, it's hard for people to empathise with them at all, which results in hatred and vigilance towards them, them which they respond to by doubling down. We need to do much more to get the word out about it and where it comes from. We need to get these people to think back to their younger selves and introspect about what happened to them, and find ways to repair it. A narcissist can only care about themselves -- but that includes their young self (the "younger self technique"). It might be the only way.