Gleaning Facebook: Narcissistic Personality Disorder

"Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) is a long-term pattern of abnormal behavior characterized by exaggerated feelings of self-importance, an excessive need for admiration, and a lack of understanding of others' feelings.[4][5] People affected by it often spend a lot of time thinking about achieving power or success, or about their appearance. They often take advantage of the people around them. The behavior typically begins by early adulthood, and occurs across a variety of situations.[5]

The cause of narcissistic personality disorder is unknown.[6] It is a personality disorder classified within cluster B by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.[5] Diagnosis is by a healthcare professional interviewing the person in question.[4] The condition needs to be differentiated from mania and substance use disorder.[5]

Treatments have not been well studied. Therapy is often difficult as people with the disorder frequently do not consider themselves to have a problem.[4] The personality was first described in 1925 by Robert Waelder while the current name for the condition came into use in 1968.[7] About one percent of people are believed to be affected at some point in their life.[6] It appears to occur more often in males than females and affects young people more than older people.[4][5]"

Hmmmmmm.

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David Matheny
Maybe Psychological Fitness needs to be a Requirement for The Office....Other Professions assess this before you are certified in a Field.

CeCe Baker
He'll never measure up - on any level. He just doesn't "have it." #notmypresident #ImpeachTrumpForTreason #UNpresident

Raymond Atkins
Maybe, Terrell. Or it could just be that Grandma Trump dropped him on his head...

Victoria Stanz Abernathy
On purpose....

John Countryman
Like every disorder, it is caused by an innocent misunderstanding of how the human experience takes place, resulting in contaminated thinking, the stress from which can alter the biochemistry of the brain. The relative severity and duration of this phenomenon will contribute to the scale of the disorder.

Gretchen Dodson
Well, if the one in a hundred is correct, at least the next 55 president will be better.

Victoria Stanz Abernathy
Being raised in NV Peale's Riverside church, 'power of positive thinking', he apparently co-opted the message to decide he could wend his way to his desires whatever it took with impunity. He turned that to his advantage in military school, and seems to be relatively unscathed and definitely unapologetic for his immoral and unethical actions ever since. His head is probably so big now there is no telling what he might be willing to do for spite or to aggrandize his persona...Egads...

George Barton
Peale's church was Marble Collegiate, not Riverside

Victoria Stanz Abernathy
George Barton thnx! I heard that wrong.

Chereta Gordon
What I find strange is: all law-enforcement officers, all FBI agents, all GBI agents, and Central intelligence officers and agents have to undergo a psychological and polygraph test before they can assume their duties. Shouldn't it be so for the president of the United States?

John Countryman
It should be so.

Susan Polkinghorn

Also see "sociopathy," and "dissociative disorder."