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NARCISSISTS: IN SECOND LIFE OR REAL LIFE IS THIS A GOOD THING AND WHEN IS CROSSING THE LINE. CON... 7. Lacks empathy: is unwilling [or, I would add, unable] to recognize or identify with the feelings and needs of others. 8. Is often envious of others or believes that others are envious of him or her. 9. Shows arrogant, haughty [rude and abusive] behaviors or attitudes. many dysfunctional narcissists I’ve worked with. So, to enumerate them, such individuals: 1. Are highly reactive to criticism.Or anything they assume orint erpret as negatively evaluating their personality o r performance. This is why if So what’s left out they’re asked a here? Actually, as question that regards identifying might oblige them descriptors, quite to admit some a bit. And I’ve no vulnerability, doubt that other deficiency, or therapists could culpability, they’re add further to the apt to falsify the six additional evidence (i.e., characteristics I’ll lie—yet without provide here— really features that, acknowledging although such prevarication regrettably to minimized or themselves), hastil omitted from y change the DSM, I‘ve subject, or routinely seen respond as though displayed by the they’d been asked something entirely different. Earlier for Psychology Today I wrote a post highlighting this supercharged sensitivity called “The Narcissist’s Dilemma