Comment on Is there self help for narcissism?
sircac@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I thought that part of being a narcissist implies the lack of self accountability to begin with, a narcissist cannot recognise the problem by themself, only external agents can induce them to it at best, and the moment they acknowledge it… is not narcissist anymore, right?
Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
It’s messy. Kinda like knowing you have anxiety disorder doesn’t make you not anxious. Knowing is a big step but from there you have to work out the behaviours and viewpoints that come from it and fight the instinctual drive to respond that way.
I was raised with some heavy narcissistic tendencies and my first response when I hear about people growing up with power ragers is still to assume they’re trashy and beneath me despite knowing more examples to the contrary than the supporting. I have to stop myself and actually remember not to be judgmental every time. Eventually it becomes your nature, but dome things will always put you in that head space.