Narcissistic personality disorder

Narcissistic personality disorder

Definition
By Mayo Clinic Staff
Narcissistic personality disorder is a mental disorder in which people have an inflated sense of their own importance, a deep need for admiration and a lack of empathy for others. But behind this mask of ultraconfidence 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. You may be generally unhappy and disappointed when you're not given the special favors or admiration you believe you deserve. Others may not enjoy being around you, and you may find your relationships unfulfilling.

Narcissistic personality disorder treatment is centered around talk therapy (psychotherapy).

Symptoms

Narcissistic personality disorder is one of several types of personality disorders. Personality disorders are conditions in which people have traits that cause them to feel and behave in socially distressing ways, limiting their ability to function in relationships and other areas of their life, such as work or school.

If you have narcissistic personality disorder, you may come across as conceited, boastful or pretentious. You often monopolize conversations. You may belittle or look down on people you perceive as inferior. You may feel a sense of entitlement — and when you don't receive special treatment, you may become impatient or angry. You may insist on having "the best" of everything — for instance, the best car, athletic club or medical care.


Many experts use the criteria in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), published by the American Psychiatric Association, to diagnose mental conditions. This manual is also used by insurance companies to reimburse for treatment.

DSM-5 criteria for narcissistic personality disorder include these features:

Having an exaggerated sense of self-importance
Expecting to be recognized as superior even without achievements that warrant it
Exaggerating your achievements and talents
Being preoccupied with fantasies about success, power, brilliance, beauty or the perfect mate
Believing that you are superior and can only be understood by or associate with equally special people
Requiring constant admiration
Having a sense of entitlement
Expecting special favors and unquestioning compliance with your expectations
Taking advantage of others to get what you want
Having an inability or unwillingness to recognize the needs and feelings of others
Being envious of others and believing others envy you
Behaving in an arrogant or haughty manner

Although some features of narcissistic personality disorder may seem like having confidence, it's not the same. Narcissistic personality disorder crosses the border of healthy confidence into thinking so highly of yourself that you put yourself on a pedestal and value yourself more than you value others.

http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/narcissistic-personality-disorder/basics/symptoms/con-20025568

Thought some of you may resonate with the above.

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) defines narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) as “an all-pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration or adulation and lack of empathy, usually beginning by early adulthood and present in various contexts.”  (reference ⁸⁰, p. 61)
In translation, a narcissistic person typically is someone who obsessively seeks self-gratification, domination, and ambition.  They tend to exaggerate their skills, talents and accomplishments.
Narcissists are pathological liars.  They will look you right in the eye, swear to God, and tell you the biggest lie you've ever heard.  They will say they're not going to do something, while plotting to do that very thing. 
The third and fourth editions of the Diagnostic and Statistics Manual (DSM) of 1980 and 1994 and the European ICD-10 describe NPD in identical language:  
All these traits were confirmed in Muhammad.  Apart from thinking he was the anointed messenger of God and the Seal of the Prophets, (Q.33:40) Muhammad regarded himself as Khayru-l-Khalq “Best of Creation,” an “excellent example,” (Q.33:21) and explicitly or implicitly hinted to be “exalted above other prophets in degrees.” (Q.2:253) He claimed to be “the preferred one,” (Q.17:55) to have been sent as a “Mercy to the worlds,” (Q.21:107) to have been risen “to a praised estate,” (Q.17:79) a station which he said none but he would receive and this is the Station of Intercession at the right hand of the Almighty next to his Glorious Throne.  In other words, he would be the person who would advise God as to who should he sent to Hell and who should be admitted to Heaven.  These are just some of Muhammad’s megalomaniac claims about his own lofty station, reported in the Qur’an.
The following two verses express vividly Muhammad’s sense of self importance and grandiosity. 
He was so impressed with himself, that he put the following words in the mouth of his sock puppet deity:  
The following are some of the claims Muhammad made about himself in the hadith.    
·         The very first thing that Allâh Almighty ever created was my soul.
·         First of all things, the Lord created my mind.
·         I am from Allâh, and the believers are from me.[3]
·         Just as Allâh created me noble, he also gave me noble characters.
·         Were it not for you, [O Muhammad] I would not have created the universe. [4]  
Compare that to the words of Jesus, who when someone called him “good master,” he objected and said, “Why do you call me good? No one is good—except God alone.”[5] Only a pathological narcissist can be so cut off from reality to claim the universe was created because of him.
To an average person, a narcissist may seem to be quite self-confident and accomplished.  In reality he or she suffers from a great deficit of self-esteem and needs an outside supply of adulation, admiration, and greatness.
Dr. Sam Vaknin is the author of Malignant Self-Love. He claims to be a narcissist himself and perhaps because of that, can be regarded as an authority on the subject. Vaknin explains:  
In Understanding Muhammad: A Psychobiography of Allâh's Prophet I have dedicated an entire chapter to this subject, showing the influences in the life of Muhammad that made him develop this personality disorder. I believe to have made a strong case. 

http://www.faithfreedom.org/challenge/narcissist.htm


Yet 1.5 billion people try to emulate this narcassist.

Lol!

Since you took the bait, this thread obviously touched a nerve and resonated with you.

Bait, I was just pointing out a resounding fact that Muhammad was clearly a Narcassist, what is wrong in that?
It seems your ability to understand emotions is why you get so highly strung all the time. Anyway, do you emulate Muhammad?

Didge wrote:Bait, I was just pointing out a resounding fact that Muhammad was clearly a Narcassist, what is wrong in that?
It seems your ability to understand emotions is why you get so highly strung all the time. Anyway, do you emulate Muhammad?

You posted all that exactly 3 minutes after the OP.

Yes, you took the bait very quickly. And you took it hard.

Without being touchy and diverting off topic (your usual cowardly tactic), perhaps you'd like to explain why?

That is your incorrect assumption

I just posted up Muhammad was a narcassist to put into perspective how many people thus if emulating Muhammad would then clearly emulate Narcassisim.

This is a debate forum, where people post up points, which clearly the only raw nerve touched seems to be you here by failing to answer my question

So do you emulate Muhammad?

The prophet Muhammed (peace be upon him) was certainly empathetic, certainly did not think he was unique, nor arrogant, not envious or any other part of that description.

So your plagiarised thesis is bogus.

Now let's look at what you just typed on another thread:

Didge: "
Let me make this as simple as possible for you.
I am or never will ever be a student to you
You need to get that fanatsy out of your head."

http://www.newsfixboard.com/t13347p50-flint-michigan-100000-left-with-water-too-poisonous-to-drink-or-even-cook-with#260545

HA HA!

Its not bogus, as clearly many aspects prove he was most certainly a narcassist. So you have disproven nothing and still fail to answer my question, which you should not fear if you believe he was not a narcassist/ Also plagerism is passing something off not of my own and I never did. I used an ex-Muslims arguments to show his stance

How odd

So do you emulate Muhammad?

Actually, most people on debate forums are (or can be) slightly narcissistic...can't they?

eddie wrote:Actually, most people on debate forums are (or can be) slightly narcissistic...can't they?

I think that uis a fair point Eddie

Ooooh, I love the personality disorders. There's one to cover nearly each and every person.

Raggamuffin wrote:Ooooh, I love the personality disorders. There's one to cover nearly each and every person.  

What's mine then?

eddie wrote:

Raggamuffin wrote:Ooooh, I love the personality disorders. There's one to cover nearly each and every person.  

What's  mine then?

An antisocial type - definitely.

I thought it was a Flower!

Raggamuffin wrote:

eddie wrote:

Raggamuffin wrote:Ooooh, I love the personality disorders. There's one to cover nearly each and every person.  

What's  mine then?

An antisocial type - definitely.

Yes I am quite shy and retiring rags

nicko wrote:I thought it was a Flower!

You thought what was a flower?

Narcissus - daffodil.

Fuzzy Zack wrote:

Didge wrote:Bait, I was just pointing out a resounding fact that Muhammad was clearly a Narcassist, what is wrong in that?
It seems your ability to understand emotions is why you get so highly strung all the time. Anyway, do you emulate Muhammad?

You posted all that exactly 3 minutes after the OP.

Yes, you took the bait very quickly. And you took it hard.

Without being touchy and diverting off topic (your usual cowardly tactic), perhaps you'd like to explain why?

Narcissistic personality disorder

korban dallas wrote:

Fuzzy Zack wrote:

You posted all that exactly 3 minutes after the OP.

Yes, you took the bait very quickly. And you took it hard.

Without being touchy and diverting off topic (your usual cowardly tactic), perhaps you'd like to explain why?

Narcissistic personality disorder

No, I just happen to be superior to most. I can't help being gifted.

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Fuzzy Zack wrote:

korban dallas wrote:
Narcissistic personality disorder

No, I just happen to be superior to most. I can't help being gifted.

idiot savant ?

Fuzzy Zack wrote:

korban dallas wrote:
Narcissistic personality disorder

No, I just happen to be superior to most. I can't help being gifted.

not you zack