Narcissistic Personality Disorder and the "Trail of Destruction"

This video answers the question: What is the string of interpersonal relationship difficulties that we tend to see associated with narcissistic personality disorder. This series of difficulties and relationships associated with narcissistic personality disorder (sometimes we hear this term “trail destruction”) is that individuals with this disorder as well as several other disorders, are more likely to have a number of interpersonal relational difficulties. This term “trail of destruction” is used with NPD, but also borderline personality disorder, antisocial personality disorder, substance use disorders, and a variety of other disorders. This so called “trail of destruction” isn't limited to just the relational problems, although we do see a number of failed, strained, and dysfunctional relationships. We also see other types of problems: rejections from individuals, rejections in social situations (like not being via the parties or not being invited to social media groups), rejections with employment (like being fired), and rejections within the family. There's this long series of rejections, failures, and conflicts. Narcissistic personality disorder is a diagnosis in the DSM, but also here in this video I'm going to be talking about NPD as it relates to pathological narcissism. These are two different constructs. One way to express it simply would be that narcissistic personality disorder is largely based on behaviors and mostly covers grandiose narcissism and pathological narcissism is more of a comprehensive view of narcissism, as it includes vulnerable narcissism.

Видео Narcissistic Personality Disorder and the "Trail of Destruction" канала Dr. Todd Grande