How many times a day do you check Facebook? How does it affect your day if no one notices or responds to your latest “enhanced” selfie? Did your last dinner plate posting garner enough likes? and the last time you …
Author: Lynn M.D.
Understanding and Handling the 4 Types of Narcissism
A study conducted showed 1 in 16 Americans suffers from a narcissistic personality disorder. It can be difficult to identify who has a narcissistic trait and who suffers from a disorder. If you spot the signs, the best thing you …
Narcissism and Ageing
It has always worried me what some ageing celebs do to their faces. For those of us on the outside of the glitzy, appearance-is-all bubble it is all too easy to see that plastic surgery of any kind never enhances …
Narcissism and BDSM – Fifty Shades of Something
Disclaimer: Warning contains references to rape which some readers may find distressing. Thanks to the success of the 50 shades books and films a form of BDSM has come out of the closet so to speak. BDSM is a fairly …
What Causes Aggression in Narcissists?
The Narcissist and Aggression In the 1970’s the American writer and family counsellor Dorothy Law Nolte penned a famous and succinct analysis of how children learn to live as an adulthood what they experience in childhood. This piece of fine …
5 Reasons Why a Narcissist Wants You Back
“Whatever I said, whatever I did, I didn’t mean it I just want you back for good (Want you back, want you back, want you back for good) Whenever I’m wrong Just tell me the song and I’ll sing it” When Gary Barlow penned these …
When Narcissists Smear their Victims
Narcissism and Smearing I have a friend who had been happily married for 25 years to her second husband. They have three lovely, grown-up kids and although she has taken early retirement she used to have a fairly high-powered job …
The 5 Signs of the Growing Narcissism Epidemic
According to clinicians around only one percent of the population at large have narcissistic personality disorder. In a clinical setting (i.e. those in treatment) the percentage is much higher (around 12-16%). I would argue however, that the broader signs of …