Narcissistic personality disorder is described in people with a grandiose sense of self importance or uniqueness, preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, etc. They perhaps lack warmth and empathy, and probably respond with rage provoked by criticism. Often they exhibit boredom and emptiness.
There are shared features with borderline states, but this condition is perhaps more stable, with a blurred boundary between this and antisocial personality.
Narcissus was a guy who really loved himself, as did lots of women, many of whom lost suffered broken hearts because he wasn't interested in anyone other than himself. The gods got wind of this and in the end turned him into stone as he knelt gazing at his reflection in a pool. Out of the stone grew the narcissus flower.
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