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Are mental illnesses narcissistic personality disorder and psychotic depression related to one another?
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NPD Not Related: Narcissistic personality disorder: http://psychology.About.Com/od/personalitydisorders/a/narcissisticpd.Htm psychotic depression: http://www.Webmd.Com/depression/guide/psychotic-depression.
Answered 3/23/2015
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It can happen: The 2 conditions are not directly related. But narcissistic personality-disordered people can become very depressed -- sometimes even psychotically so. This may happen due to perceived failures in empathy, to which they are exquisitely sensitive. Rather than being a little hurt and getting over it like less impaired people might, an npd person may lose his/her entire feeling of self-hood.
Answered 5/12/2016
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Narcissism: Personality disorders in general are at higher risk for suicide. Narcissists eventually drive everyone around themselves away through the toxicity of their very presence. and cannot see or understand their part in their own misery, which leads eventually to depression and possibly suicide. The core of it is they cannot face their own abysmal self-esteem or the reasons for it.
Answered 5/17/2019
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