Surrounded by Narcissists: Or, How to Stop Other People's Egos Ruining Your Life

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You may be able to ask, or encourage, someone exhibiting narcissistic tendencies to improve their behavior. But if you aren't seeing any change, this might end up hurting you. So save your energy for a different strategy – which we’ll get to next. And finally, there are blues. Blues are fact-focused introverts. They’re thoughtful and conscientious, but they also have a weakness – a fear of public humiliation. I think Erikson’s description of NPD seemed to be correct. But he is not a mental health professional and neither am I, so I don’t know. But, it is in line with what I have read previously and the DSM. He also gives some useful advice on how to deal with narcissistic people in your life. Now I know what they look like, I am too often blown away by the sheer volume of narcissists that walk among us. They come in many different forms, but their behaviour is fundamentally the same and this makes spotting them easier. In turn, we are better able to shield ourselves from the damage unleashed by the narcissists walking our streets. PDF / EPUB File Name: Surrounded_by_Narcissists_-_Thomas_Erikson.pdf, Surrounded_by_Narcissists_-_Thomas_Erikson.epub

True NPD may only affect 1 to 2 percent of people. But it’s been estimated that up to 20 percent of the population behave in a narcissistic way. He says weird things like how protecting yourself from narcissism is realizing you are not special. Then he goes up to say they are a few special people like Kim Kardashian and Bill Gates. He says don’t be an influencer, work hard. Then actually says people like Kim Kardashian worked hard! She is the definition of a jobless influencer.The idea of getting something for nothing is very appealing to narcissists. And when these kinds of beliefs are normalized, society becomes increasingly narcissistic.

The language, as always with this author, is friendly and non-scientific. Unlike in other books by Thomas Erikson, DISC is not the main point, although concepts still get repeated plenty of times.This book reads like a college student who didn't do any homework for the assignment so he bullsh*tted his way through the final paper on the night before it was due, word-salad-ing along until he reached the required word count. There is NO substance to this book. It has absolutely no foundation to stand on. Nothing that anyone can learn from it.

Reds are fact-focused extroverts. They’re very driven and good at problem-solving, but they have to be in control. When they feel like they’re losing control, reds freak out. He rambled about psychopaths. A lot. Which his previous book was about (and he certainly let you know how many people LOVED that book!). But I'm reading THIS book about narcissists. If I wanted to know about psychopaths, I would read the book about psychopaths (I certainly won't waste my time with this incredibly pretentious author but you get the idea).In The Narcissism Epidemic, published in 2009, psychologists Twenge and Campbell argue that narcissism is becoming dangerously widespread in American culture. Even people who don’t have NPD are behaving in narcissistic ways.

I will attempt here to distill that language by giving you my own experience of several narcissists that have been loved ones in my life. Nothing can replace real-life experience, and giving narrative to it eases understanding of the technical descriptors that reside in the DSM and elsewhere on the internet. But along with that, he discusses the true nature of narcissism being born and growing in our current culture. How to treat people with these traits. How to avoid these traits in ourselves. How to recognize them as well and how they may interact with different personalities. Very thorough.Erikson helps us to understand, Identify and run as fast as you can.........sort of joking, not really! How to free yourself from the tyranny of narcissists and everyday narcissism, from the multi-million-copy bestselling author of Surrounded by Idiots Now you know how to handle a conversation with a narcissist. Unfortunately, though, it’s unlikely to be a one-off. If someone has been manipulative once, they’re bound to do it again.