Life After Narcs: Dr. Ramani Durvasula on Navigating Narcissism
A Little Bit Culty
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Is There a Pattern of Narcissism Within the Cult World?
Narcissism is on a continuum on a spectrum, so at the low end of narcissism you're talking about people who are superficial and adolescent. At the far end of the spectrum we see malignant narcissism which has all the top notes of narcissism but also includes some sadism mixed into there. Then it goes to more scary stations like sociopathy and psychopathy. Sociopaths are much more dysregulated than psychopaths because they don't get that sympathetic nervous system activation when they do something wrong. They can rob a bank at breakfast and be having lunch with their mom not even thinking about doing bad things. Narcissists aren't bothered by doing bad things; they just
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