Narccisstic Personality Disorder (source)
Section I - Must check TWO or more of the following:
- ✔ I have identity issues, and I depend on others in order to define myself. My self-esteem depends on others as well. How others view me influences how I view myself, which is why I try to present myself as important or powerful.
- ✔ I have difficulty settings goals for myself, and how I set them really depends on the praise I receive from others. I tend to set goals unrealistically high in order to see myself as exceptional, or contrarily too low so I can feel more powerful when the task is easy.
- ✔ I struggle to identify with the feelings and needs of others, and I tend to underestimate the effect I have on others.
- ✔ I have unstable relationships. I can become so focused on my own anxieties and problems I forget the needs of my partner.
4 / 4
Section II - Must check TWO or more of the following:
- ✔ I have cognition problems and difficulty perceiving myself, other people, and events.
- ✔ I have affectivity problems and difficulty controlling the range and intensity of my emotional responses.
- ✔ I have problems with interpersonal functioning and being aware of my own actions and feelings.
- ✔ I have difficulty controlling my impulses.
4 / 4
Section III - Must check BOTH of the following:
- ✔ I can be self-centered, and I feel entitled to good treatment from others, as I am dependent on it.
- ✔ I like to be the center of attention, and I seek admiration from others.
Section IV - Must check FIVE or more of the following:
- ⁇ I tend to exaggerate my achievements and talents and like to be praised for them.
- ✔ I am often preoccupied with fantasies of my own success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love life.
- ✘ In a way, I believe I am “special” and unique, and I like to surround myself with other people who are “special” and unique.
- ⁇ I require excessive admiration.
- ✔ I set unreasonable expectations for both myself and the people around me.
- ✔ I tend to take advantage of situations and am opportunistic.
- ✔ I struggle with empathy and have a difficult time relating to others.
- ✔ I am often envious, and I covet what other people have.
- ⁇ I can have an arrogant or haughty attitude.
5(+) / 9
Section V - Must check ALL of the following:
- ✔ My symptoms impair my personality and social functioning
- ✔ My symptoms are consistent across a broad range of personal and social situations.
- ✔ My symptoms have lasted a while and started in early adulthood or earlier.
- ✔ My symptoms are not caused by medication, drug use, or another medical condition.
Section VI - Common symptoms and behaviors (not required for diagnosis):
- ✔ I can have either low or high self-esteem. I find it depends on the people I’m with and how they’re treating me at the time.
- ✔ I tend to overestimate myself, which can often lead to disappointing myself.
- ✔ I can become anxious and spiral into a depression if I don’t receive praise or admiration.
- ✔ I hate being alone for too long.
- ✔ I find I compare myself with others often, having no other means of defining myself unless I can use someone else as sort of a “measuring tape.”
- ✔ I often feel incredibly misunderstood by others.
- ✘ I find I like to have the Best of everything. The newest electronic, the most expensive brand of something, etc.
- ⁇ I like to constantly be moving up and making progress and can become obsessive with it.
- ✔ When talking about myself, I tend to ramble.
- ⁇ I think a lot of people are jealous of me.
- ✔ I am incredibly sensitive to criticism. I don’t usually show it outwardly, but being criticized can leave me feeling humiliated, degraded, and empty.
- ✔ When upset, I tend to withdraw from others.
- ⁇ I find being competitive is very difficult for me because there is a chance of losing.
- ✔ I am often depressed and/or anxious.
- ✔ I try to read people’s weaknesses while hiding my own.
11(+) / 15