Date: December 5th, 2025 11:09 AM
Author: ever-growing, towering monument of mental illness (gunneratttt)
These are the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria for Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
To be diagnosed with NPD, an individual must exhibit at least five of the following symptoms, according to the Merck Manuals and Harvard Health:
(1) Grandiose sense of self-importance: Exaggerating achievements and talents, expecting to be recognized as superior without commensurate accomplishments.
(2) Preoccupation with fantasies: Being absorbed with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love.
(3) Belief in being "special": Believing they are unique and can only be understood by, or should associate with, other special or high-status people or institutions.
(4) Need for excessive admiration: Requiring constant attention and praise from others.
(5) Sense of entitlement: Having unreasonable expectations of especially favorable treatment or automatic compliance with their expectations.
(6) Exploitative behavior: Taking advantage of others to achieve their own ends.
(7) Lack of empathy: An unwillingness or inability to recognize or identify with the feelings and needs of others.
(8) Envy: Being envious of others or believing that others are envious of them.
(9) Arrogant behaviors: Exhibiting arrogant, haughty behaviors and attitudes.
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