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Neal Brennan || The Mind of Neal Brennan

The Psychology Podcast

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The Grandiose Narcissism Is Like Having Tourette's

There's a sort of like an underlying idea that you are ultimately fragile. Like fear of rejection is actually a big thing and well sometimes I don't want to get too clinical but vulnerable narcissism is sometimes correlated with borderline personality disorder. The child starts to develop shame for normal healthy motivations then when they grow up, they feel shame somehow. And usually it develops as a result of being young and not having every time you express your needs a parental figure would invalidate those needs. So if you're a young baby that's usually how it develops that's what we found. Yeah yeah so here's some cognitive distortions I'm going to send you a book by my friend Seth Gillahan that's

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