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SerWhiteTiger -> RE: Narcissistic Personality Disorder (9/30/2013 12:26:09 AM)
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ORIGINAL: OsideGirl
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ORIGINAL: MariaB
I also believe that a narcissist is just as likely to be a submissive as a dominant and so if you are going to warn people, you need to warn everyone and not just the poor vulnerable submissive.
Actually, I agree with Maria. I would say that out in the community (Los Angeles area) I met more submissive women that were candidates for NPD than male Dominants. NPDs thrive on attention and the large number imbalance between men and women in the LA community means that women are pursued, flattered and often given tokens of affection.
It's an ideal environment for someone with NPD and since the majority of diagnoses are women, it would support what I saw.
With male Dominants, what I saw mostly was not narcissism, it was insecurity puffed up by bravado or sociopathic tendencies (emotionally unable to connect and using BDSM as a crutch to hide it).
Surely you mean HPD? Or are you merging them a bit?
I agree that insecure with sociopathic tendencies is more common for the male Dom, but I still see more male Dom NPD than female sub NPD. Lots of female sub HPD and BPD though.
No, I meant what I said "candidates for NPD". Yes, there were plenty of candidates for HPD, as well, but that was not the subject of the thread.
As I stated, this was Los Angeles, which automatically changes your demographic.
Yeah, I realized later that LA would likely draw disproportionate numbers of NPD women.
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