Narcissistic personality disorder — one of several types of personality disorders — is a mental condition in which people have an inflated sense of their own importance, a deep need for excessive attention and admiration, troubled relationships, and a lack of empathy for others. But behind this mask of extreme confidence lies a fragile self-esteem that's vulnerable to the slightest criticism.

A narcissistic personality disorder causes problems in many areas of life, such as relationships, work, school or financial affairs. People with narcissistic personality disorder may be generally unhappy and disappointed when they're not given the special favors or admiration they believe they deserve. They may find their relationships unfulfilling, and others may not enjoy being around them.

Treatment for narcissistic personality disorder centers around talk therapy (psychotherapy).

Symptoms
Signs and symptoms of narcissistic personality disorder and the severity of symptoms vary. People with the disorder can:

Have an exaggerated sense of self-importance
Have a sense of entitlement and require constant, excessive admiration
Expect to be recognized as superior even without achievements that warrant it
Exaggerate achievements and talents
Be preoccupied with fantasies about success, power, brilliance, beauty or the perfect mate
Believe they are superior and can only associate with equally special people
Monopolize conversations and belittle or look down on people they perceive as inferior
Expect special favors and unquestioning compliance with their expectations
Take advantage of others to get what they want
Have an inability or unwillingness to recognize the needs and feelings of others
Be envious of others and believe others envy them
Behave in an arrogant or haughty manner, coming across as conceited, boastful and pretentious
Insist on having the best of everything — for instance, the best car or office
At the same time, people with narcissistic personality disorder have trouble handling anything they perceive as criticism, and they can:

Become impatient or angry when they don't receive special treatment
Have significant interpersonal problems and easily feel slighted
React with rage or contempt and try to belittle the other person to make themselves appear superior
Have difficulty regulating emotions and behavior
Experience major problems dealing with stress and adapting to change
Feel depressed and moody because they fall short of perfection
Have secret feelings of insecurity, shame, vulnerability and humiliation

I do have more than a grade school education . not much though . was kicked out of high school in my junior year for telling a English teacher to go F your self . so I joined the Army . went to Germany , for a year and finished a GED while over there. then went to sunny south east Asia . got to carry a 16 for a year and several days. got very upset with the command structure in the company I was stationed with . you were not promoted if you didn't have your head stuck up some Lts ,ass or platoon sergeants ass so I told them to go F your selves . plus I do not know how to leave this page to get to a spell check system and then back to this page without starting all over again. so if you do not like how I say things . or how I tell some one that I think is a F ing communist who seems to want every thing handed to him , a commie .well sorry your so picky . I aint got much of a education and it hasn't stopped me from doing the work that I enjoy doing.

You sound more like you should have joined the Marines instead of the Army, for I too was a bit of a rebel, getting ejected from high school early and the only service that would have me was the Marines at the time, but after I got in I went to 13 colleges and universities all over the country, for the first 2yrs., as a aircraft mechanic, before going overseas and finally being handed that M16, a parachute I knew nothing about and a chuck of dark sky. That's where all my good deeds finally caught up to me and I ended up with 16 office hours and three court marshals and then discharged for medical reasons, after my medivac to a battalion hospital. I took my GED twice while I was in the service, but because of a government screw up in paper work I had to take it a third when I got out, I was in a junior college and getting ready to enter a tech school when I finally did get it.

Then ten years from the day I got out of Vietnam the agent hit and I got a triple brain aneurism. loosing my sight and hearing on my right side, ten years after that I lost a lung. I've been around the block under the block and beaten with the block, so I know what I speak, but I've tried to expand myself greatly in fear of what the surgery might have done to my brains. Doing so I've written more then half a dozen novels, a dozen shorts and several new items and editorials, just to expand my vocabulary, diction and writing skills and abilities. Have to keep the juices flowing.

A rewarding story of pure determination and will to survive!!! I admire you and give Thanks to you and Jeff Smith, For your service to this great country of ours..

NO one is perfect and we all have limitations self imposed or created in living life itself..
But we learned from them and go on... We understand the only limitations we truly have are those we impose on ourself, so why do it??live, love and let be the person you are, perfect as you are!!! We learn something new, every day after all, right??

Narcissistic personality disorder — one of several types of personality disorders — is a mental condition in which people have an inflated sense of their own importance, a deep need for excessive attention and admiration, troubled relationships, and a lack of empathy for others. But behind this mask of extreme confidence lies a fragile self-esteem that's vulnerable to the slightest criticism.

A narcissistic personality disorder causes problems in many areas of life, such as relationships, work, school or financial affairs. People with narcissistic personality disorder may be generally unhappy and disappointed when they're not given the special favors or admiration they believe they deserve. They may find their relationships unfulfilling, and others may not enjoy being around them.

Treatment for narcissistic personality disorder centers around talk therapy (psychotherapy).

Symptoms
Signs and symptoms of narcissistic personality disorder and the severity of symptoms vary. People with the disorder can:

Have an exaggerated sense of self-importance
Have a sense of entitlement and require constant, excessive admiration
Expect to be recognized as superior even without achievements that warrant it
Exaggerate achievements and talents
Be preoccupied with fantasies about success, power, brilliance, beauty or the perfect mate
Believe they are superior and can only associate with equally special people
Monopolize conversations and belittle or look down on people they perceive as inferior
Expect special favors and unquestioning compliance with their expectations
Take advantage of others to get what they want
Have an inability or unwillingness to recognize the needs and feelings of others
Be envious of others and believe others envy them
Behave in an arrogant or haughty manner, coming across as conceited, boastful and pretentious
Insist on having the best of everything — for instance, the best car or office
At the same time, people with narcissistic personality disorder have trouble handling anything they perceive as criticism, and they can:

Become impatient or angry when they don't receive special treatment
Have significant interpersonal problems and easily feel slighted
React with rage or contempt and try to belittle the other person to make themselves appear superior
Have difficulty regulating emotions and behavior
Experience major problems dealing with stress and adapting to change
Feel depressed and moody because they fall short of perfection
Have secret feelings of insecurity, shame, vulnerability and humiliation

I have to decline the thinking you just did on this point LJ as far as most of the Dem being good, they kind of blew it for me ever voting their way again, since they took on the Communist Party this last election, so now they are the real DNC (Democrat/Nazi/Communist) Party of Soros' Muslims. The word democrat that they thought would have been synonymous with democracy, but it is just a word they used to suck people in, if they could have found a way to put free or freedom in their insignia they would have gone that way

You did know that the Nazis used the Muslim Jihadist as terrorists throughout Europe, during WWII and Soros is still using them.