Are Narcissists More Likely to Experience Impostor Syndrome?

Re:Are Narcissists More Likely to Experience Impostor Syndrome? by nwellnhof on Friday October 26, 2018 @12:27PM (#18310739)

I think the key to understanding narcissism is that narcissists only try very hard to appear confident but on the inside they're anything but. The grandiosity they display is just a kind of coping mechanism.

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Re:Are Narcissists More Likely to Experience Impostor Syndrome? by ergothus on Friday October 26, 2018 @01:28PM (#18311261)

But there's a difference between narcissism and just covering for a lack of self-confidence.

I'm not psychologically trained, so take this with a grain of salt, but I've met exactly one person that I think was a narcissist. He was a jerk, but mostly because he was utterly baffled by any concept that didn't involve him in the center. It was an attribute completely separate from his confidence. I feel like it is really hard to explain if you haven't met someone like that - I was routinely gobsmacked by his reactions - every human interaction I'd had to date had not prepared me for it.

Meanwhile, I have tons of anxiety and often cover it up with false confidence, and our reactions to similar events were dramatically different.

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Re:Are Narcissists More Likely to Experience Impostor Syndrome? by Amygaz on Friday October 26, 2018 @06:17PM (#18313093)

Not at all. That is why it’s called a personality disorder. They are truly and sincerely like that.

The part that made me realized I was dealing with mentally diseased people is that they truly believe the crap they throw at you. Their lies become an undeniable truth as soon as they spell it out loud.

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