Grandiosity

If you're uniquely important, you can push away the fear that you're insignificant.

Grandiosity provides that protection by making your importance, ability, or specialness larger than what reality actually is or what reality supports.

The difficulty is that life keeps presenting facts the image can't comfortably include.

You make a mistake.

Mm-hmm.

Grandiose is really I am so special.

Mm-hmm.

And everybody should get on board with how special I am.

The narcissist never gets that.

Grandiosity is a key element of narcissism.

You see it whether it's the sullen grandiosity of the covert narcissist, the over-the-top grandiosity of sort of the classical or the malignant narcissist.

It's very much a fixed feature of narcissism.

Again, it all goes back to that damn birthday obsession thing with the narcissistic people.

Now add to that grandiosity.

Grandiosity is a funny thing.

It often means that if you aren't top shelf supply for them right now, they will only communicate on big ticket days like birthdays.

And I know lots of people do that, people even who mean well, who aren't narcissistic, and they'll text you or email or call you on a birthday, something they wouldn't do on another day.

A fourth thing to keep in mind is that narcissistic people actually believe their own narratives.

Grandiose and distorted as it is, it's almost delusional.

They believe it.

They believe the story about this is their journey, and this is their destiny, and they have to honor their path or whatever drivel they are making up to rationalize blowing up a lot of people's lives.

A fourth thing to keep in mind is that narcissistic people actually believe their own narratives.

Grandiose and distorted as it is, it's almost delusional, they believe it.

They believe the story about this is their journey and this is their destiny and they have to honor their path or whatever drivel they are making up to rationalize blowing up a lot of people's lives.

In this twisted narrative, there's little regard for your pain or confusion or hurt, or they may throw you under the bus.

Again, it all goes back to that damn birthday obsession thing with the narcissistic people.

Now add to that grandiosity.

Grandiosity is a funny thing.

It often means that if you aren't top shelf supply for them right now, they will only communicate on big ticket days like birthdays.

And I know lots of people do that, people even who mean well, who aren't narcissistic, and they'll text you or email or call you on a birthday, something they wouldn't do on another day.

The narcissist never gets that.

Grandiosity is a key element of narcissism.

You see it whether it's the sullen grandiosity of the covert narcissist, the over-the-top grandiosity of sort of the classical or the malignant narcissist.

It's very much a fixed feature of narcissism.

The narcissist never gets that.

Grandiosity is a key element of narcissism.

You see it, whether it's the sullen grandiosity of the covert narcissist, the over the top grandiosity of sort of the classical or the malignant narcissist.

It's very much a fixed feature of narcissism.