I have affective empathy (the ability to feel other people's pain when they are in pain), but I don't have cognitive empathy (the ability to see things from the shoes of another person.) I'm not sure I would want it. In high school competition, I was 2nd place. We later found out it was a mix-up and I was actually first place. I didn't really think about the other kid who was given false hope and his shoes. In college, I was given the opportunity to transfer to a better ranked sports school with a scholarship. I liked my first college, but didn't really think how they saw the situation or put ..read more

Am I a genius or a narcissist NPI 28 Cdp 15 OCD -6 I've struggled since a kid with ideas I'm a genius, shoving them down bc I know it sounds terrible. The reason I thought this is because I was having ideas about determinism and philosophical things at a very young age and thinking about God religion etc. I was also lucid dreaming very intensely from about 11. I found school very easy and did very well without studying. To complicate matters I grew quite tall and handsome (6'3) and people say I could be a model quite a lot. WORK:psychiatric healthcarer At work I'm often complimented for my em ..read more

i’m bi & i’ve only had sex with another woman once like back when i was in high school. I adore sex but i get soooo turned on by girls that look like me. like it’s not even that i want them i just want myself ? can anyone relate? submitted by /u/Shr00mygf_ [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

Narcissism amplifies the dopamine I get. I get lot of dopamine even from low effort tasks or things I did no effort in achieving. I constantly ask myself questions like, "Why I'm so high IQ", "Why I'm so beautiful". The duration of supply is short, 5 seconds at most. Tasks like solving a math, leetcode or any other cognitively demanding problem, gaining knowledge of something gives me most dopamine even more than what I get from "manipulating" people. submitted by /u/Chooseausername6544 [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

I'm a 25 year old guy and I think that I have mild narcissism—more the overt type than the covert type. I'm obsessed with trying to be popular and gaining people's approval. I feel special and like I'm a man of destiny who deserves to have an extraordinary life. My strongest desire is to be famous. Whenever something happens that hurts my ego or makes me feel like someone doesn't approve of me, I overreact and question my self-worth. It seems as if my self-esteem rapidly fluctuates. I also use stimulants to enhance my ego. I have problems with substances but my main addiction is sex and I'm o ..read more

It was reallllly embarrassing and awkward to talk about. Especially, because she always likes to compliment me on my empathy. So I was scared of breaking that positive image she had of me. I worked up the courage to be like, ya know when you compliment me on my empathy, it’s very nice of you, and I appreciate it, but it feels odd, because it’s actually something I struggle with. I was expecting her to be invalidating, as previous therapists have. But she totally believed me. She told me that she never said I was high sympathy, like feeling sorry for people, but that I’m good at taking other p ..read more

I've been doing telehealth therapy for two months (9 sessions) and have yet to get to any kind of diagnosis. How long did it take you to get diagnosed, did you find yourself being dishonest for a while, etc.? submitted by /u/headhurdygurdy [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

I have been through many collapses and each time they have made me wonder whether or not I have borderline because of the way I feel about myself during. I tend to feel worthless, suicidal, ugly, shameful etc. and feel particularly needy towards the people closest to me so they can reiterate I’m not these things. This makes me feel slightly more borderline because it is known they become depressed when alone/depend on people. But I never tend to act out on these feelings, I just feel it inside and have to manipulate people in to get the validation I want because I don’t want to come across we ..read more

I had a therapist on campus but I don’t see her right now because I’m studying abroad. I also do recognize I’ve been using my therapy session with my campus therapist as manipulation practice and seeing therapy as a game on whether she can uncover my trauma/I can conceal things from her. Now that I’m abroad, I’ve been seeing another virtual therapist. She has refused to formally diagnose me after four weekly sessions even though she said “you definitely show strong signs of narcissistic personality disorder and a bit of ASPD tendencies with an avoidant attachment style. But you definitely do ..read more

I’m doing a psych evaluation next month, primarily to get my autism diagnosis, but since it’s one of those things where they check you for everything this will obviously come up. I don’t intend to lie and run from the label. My parents bitch a lot about my selfishness that I can’t control, I legitimately just cannot care like my mind doesn’t work that way, and I’m wondering if telling them might help that situation (ie as an excuse) or if it would have the opposite effect? I’m trying to keep our relationship somewhat stable. Do parents want to know if their kid is a narcissist? I have somewhe ..read more