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by wydfre 1795 days ago
Could you go into detail about "paranoid and narcissistic personality" specifically the narcissistic personality - I have not heard of that.
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Narcissism probably isn't the right word for me to be using here. It was on my mind because of this comment, where there happens to be more discussion of it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27920152. And it happened to fit the case I was thinking of at the time. But it probably shouldn't be part of my original comment. Specifically what I'm referring to is an integral part of paranoia: someone thinking that, while long-term unemployed and living with their parents in their 40s, they are so "in the loop" as to be aware of conspiracies and such a threat to those conspiracies that they're a target. I have a hard time not equating that attitude with a little bit of narcissism, though again - probably not the right word to have used when discussing specific disorders.
This is known as "delusion of reference" and is common during states of psychosis or mania: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideas_and_delusions_of_referen...

>It is "the notion that everything one perceives in the world relates to one's own destiny", usually in a negative and hostile manner.

I would imagine this is not a medical assessment but a more liberal, laymen use of the words paranoid and narcissistic.

After all, MJ does alter the mind and broadens the worldview so to say, which could be called paranoid through a certain lens, and also dulls the senses and makes more tolerant for micro signs and non-verbal communication, which could be called, with some exaggeration, more narcisstic.