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Medical Video: How to Deal with Jealous People
Narcissism is a popular term among young Indonesians to describe people who are passionate and hobby of showing selfies. Even so, the meaning of this term missed the definition made by the famous psychologist, Sigmund Freud. Freud defined narcissism as narcissistic personality disorder (NPD). Narcissistic personality disorder is only owned by 1% of the world's population. What are the characteristics of narcissistic people due to NPD?
Various characteristics of narcissistic people
Narcissism falls into the category of personality disorders that can be diagnosed officially by doctors and mental health experts. To diagnose NPD, doctors will refer to the characteristics of narcissists in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) published by the American Psychiatric Association.
In general, people who have NPD are often described as being overly proud, arrogant, manipulative, and hooked on something. They are also obsessed with themselves and feel very confident that they must and are entitled to special treatment from those around them.
In addition, the following are the characteristics of the most common narcissists based on DSM-5:
- Want to be recognized as someone superior, without even being supported by guaranteed achievements.
- Exaggerating talents and achievements.
- Busy with fantasies about success, power, intelligence, physical perfection, or as a perfect life partner.
- Believe that he is a superior individual and can only be understood by people who are of equal height or special.
- Thirst for attention and praise from others, all the time.
- Use other people to get what they want, without guilt and regret.
- Lack of empathy and not caring about the feelings and needs of others.
- Difficult to establish and maintain healthy relationships; dominant and impressed set.
- Do not accept if criticized, and respond with anger, insults, and feeling defeated.
- Jealousy and envy of others who are more successful than him, while believing that other people are jealous of him.
- Always hope that other people will agree with themselves and be in line with what they want.
- Whatever you want or dream of is "the best".
- Don't want to be outdone by other people, always insist on having what other people have or don't even have.
- Speak and behave arrogantly or arrogantly
- Impatient or irritable if you don't get special treatment.
- Feel depressed and depressed because they feel less than perfect.
