Marriages with narcissistic personality disorder, these three tips will teach you to recognize narcissism

If one person in a marriage with narcissistic personality disorder has severe symptoms, the other person will be tolerant. However, if both people are severely narcissistic, their life together will be filled with comparisons all day long. Moreover, they live a particularly extravagant and ostentatious life, so we must correct our own shortcomings in time and not let these factors affect ourselves. Let us understand the characteristics of narcissistic personality disorder.

1. Feeling good about yourself

With the help of unfettered imagination, people with narcissistic personality disorder experience a deep and extensive sense of self-satisfaction. Based on this deep and extensive self-confidence, they often appear calm, peaceful, insensitive to changes in the environment, and even a kind of calm optimism. They may also experience transient episodes of rage, shame, emptiness, and depression when their self-confidence is under attack. However, this state of mind will not last long. They will activate the embellishment function and soon turn failure into success and clumsy and embarrassing behavior into "chivalry."

2. You are admirable and you are the best.

People with narcissistic personality disorder clearly believe that they are admirable, even the best, and that they deserve special treatment. This self-evaluation is so deeply imprinted in their hearts that they never doubt it. Therefore, anyone who doubts their self-evaluation will be despised and denied. Because people with narcissistic personality disorder see themselves as special, they believe they are above the norms, habits, customs, and ethics of their society or culture.

3. Decorative effect

The embellishment function refers to the fact that when an individual suffers a setback or his behavior does not conform to social norms, he distorts the facts with reasons that are favorable to himself in order to reduce the tension and anxiety he actually experiences and alleviate the impact of the facts on his self-image. Embellishment is often an unconscious process. Through embellishment, people with narcissistic personality disorder find excuses, pretexts and justifications for their frustrations, failures and behaviors that are not accepted by society or culture; although these excuses and pretexts are untrue, they are convincing and convincing. Through the use of embellishment, people with narcissistic personality disorder not only find "real reasons" for their failures and behaviors that are not accepted by society or culture, but also protect the irrational self-image and self-confidence on which they depend for survival.