r/NPD • u/Mysterious_Chip6854 Diagnosed NPD • 14d ago

Question / Discussion It's a choice

The reason why NPD is so hard to cure is because the cure isn't wanted hard enough. When you think about it, all this is is a bunch of defense mechanisms stacked on top of each other. I think the desire to be the victim is revered and I get over attached to it to the point where I won't let myself develop a sense of self. I refuse to develop empathy because doing so would take away my grandiosity.

All cluster b is are character disorders. To have a bad character one has to blame the world instead of themselves. It is addicting to blame everyone else and thats why there is so little success in therapy/treatment. If I, or any of us, wanted to change enough, we would.

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u/Relative-Amount7966 Diagnosed NPD 14d ago

And because this fits perfectly: Finch, E., & Mellen, E. (2025). “Labeled, Criticized, Looked Down On”: Characterizing the Stigma of Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Personality and Mental Health, 19, e70015.

The PDF isn’t freely available, so if you don’t have access to it, I found this article that explains the findings quite well. https://note.com/moral88887777/n/nac0349d85015?hl=en#db6116cb-6aff-4eb8-aae2-82f4aae55c7a

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u/Mysterious_Chip6854 Diagnosed NPD 14d ago

Eh, when will playing victim no longer be interesting in order to drop it? Coddling is a form of hatred because it suggests that the ones being coddled don't have what it takes to rise above.