“Is my vain and demanding friend a narcissist or does she just suck?” A psychotherapist explains

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“Is my vain and demanding friend a narcissist or does she just suck?” A psychotherapist explains

By Hannah Keegan

10 months ago

9 min read

We all know people who are self-centred, navel-gazing and egocentric. We also know by now that ‘narcissism’ is shorthand for the sort of people who take main character energy to the extreme. But given that narcissistic personality disorder is a mental health condition, how do we, as armchair observers of others’ behaviour, get a better handle on who’s showing a pattern of consistent, pathological narcissism and who’s just being a bit of an insecure dick?


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