Narcissists - what causes it?
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lived with a narc who would talk, gossip, comment, nag, complain endlessly for several hours a day
This person clearly had something wrong with them
What causes this bioenergetically?
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@wester130 I've recently been listening to HG Tudor on YouTube. He describes himself as a narcissistic psychopath. I listened because I wanted to know exactly what those two personalities were.
In an interview he said it was from childhood trauma, that he had no interest in changing, "why would I", that if an old lady was laying on the ground in need of help he would literally step over her if he had something else to do and/or if there was no benefit for him to help her.
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I think it's not always hormonal or health related.
Sometimes and most of the time from what I have observed the childhood imprints, and/or the environment will create a type of mindset, ex: scarcity mindset (for example in some cultures people will love and take pride in helping others, and in others being kind and helpful can be seen as weakness as people tend to be very competitive for examples)...or entitlement: in some places being of a certain gender or a certain skin color or having money can make people feel superior to others and treat them badly.
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@wester130 I think its probably related to stimulative activity from high estrogen, adrenaline, and glutamate activity, stemming from low thyroid and metabolism.
Peat has said high estrogen slows methylation of neurotransmitters creating a build up and can have almost cocaine like effects.
Personally I can’t stand being around these people. The ones who can’t stand having any silence in the room and would rather fill it up with whatever kabooki thoughts pop in their head.
I think that type of neurotic manic behavior can manifest in different ways, depends. But I don’t think addressing trauma and just talking about does much. Not until your physiology changes can the mental health change.
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Similar to the above posts, I’ve read that it is as a result of lack of attention in childhood. Which can sometimes have the possible effect whereby a child that seeks the attention of their parent(s), but doesn’t get it, and tries their utmost to “please” people even if that involves lying or exaggeration; therefore falling into the loop of trying to impress people and hence attention seeking etc.
It’s quite disturbing to be around/living with people who suffer from NPD, my ex wife was/is a textbook example of being a narc., the amount of gas lighting, lying etc nearly destroyed me - luckily I got out, but after having suffered for over 10 years; the effects of which I still suffer from today.
I wouldn’t wish it upon anyone.
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labelling people of varying disposition as narcs is kinda dumb at some point
