Re: OMG! HELP. serious

http://www.healthyplace.com/Communities/Personality_Disorders/narcissism/inde...


from the link:

Malignant Self Love -
Narcissism Revisited

The narcissist is an actor in a monodrama, yet forced to remain behind the scenes. The scenes take center stage, instead.

The narcissist does not cater at all to his own needs. Contrary to his reputation, the narcissist does not "love" himself in any true sense of this loaded word.

He feeds off other people who hurl back at him an image that he projects to them. This is their sole function in his world: to reflect, to admire, to applaud, to detest - in a word, to assure him that he exists. Otherwise, they have no right to tax his time, energy, or emotions - so he feels.

According to the legend of Narcissus, this Greek boy fell in love with his own reflection in a pond. Presumably, this amply sums up the nature of his namesakes: narcissists. The mythological Narcissus rejected the advances of the nymph Echo and was punished by Nemesis, consigned to pine away as he fell in love with his own reflection - exactly as Echo had pined away for him. How apt. Narcissists are punished by echoes and reflections of their problematic personalities up to this very day.

How do I know so much about narcissism? I am a narcissist and, of course, I've done a lot of research on the subject.

read more at the link. this mans work is without rival.