bipolar and narcissistic personality disorder

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Bipolar disorder, also known as manic-depressive illness, is a brain disorder that causes unusual shifts in mood, energy, activity levels, and the ability to carry out day to day tasks. The symptoms of bipolar disorder are severe and differ from the normal ups and downs that everyone experiences. The symptoms of Bipolar disorder can have serious consequences such as damaging relationships, poor job or school performance, and even suicide. Bipolar disorder can be treated. People with this illness can lead full and productive lives. Bipolar disorder often develops in late teens or early adult years. The symptoms are not easy to spot when it starts so they may seem like separate problems and not be recognized as part of a larger problem. Many people go on through their lives being misdiagnosed and think that it is normal for them without realizing that it is part of a bigger picture. Bipolar grandiosity can sometimes pretend to be a representation of narcissism. It can look the same externally and even feel the same internally. People with bipolar disorder experience intense emotional states during a manic or hypo manic episode as well as an extremely sad or hopeless state that is called a depressive episode. Sometimes an episode can be both manic and depressive. This is called a mixed state. Let's start by clarifying what bipolar grandiosity actually is. We usually see its presence during the hypomania and/or mania state related to bipolar mood elevation. When individuals with bipolar disorder experience elevated mood swings, they may have experiences of being in euphoric mood, elevated energy, as well as having highly optimistic outlook along with an accelerated thought processes and heightened creativity. In many aspects they feel...

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...lays major paranoid tendencies, and who holds on to an illusion of omnipotence. These people are fighting delusions of insignificance and lost value, and trying to re-establish their self-esteem through grandiose fantasies and self-reinforcement. When unable to gain recognition or support from others, they take on the role of a heroic or worshipped person with a grandiose mission.
However, there are few pure variants of any subtype and the subtypes are not recognized in the DSM or ICD. Another type of narcissism is narcissistic vulnerability. It entails (on a conscious level) helplessness, emptiness, low self-esteem, and shame. These actions can be expressed in their behavior by being socially avoidant in situations where their self-presentation is not possible which leads to withdrawal because the approval they need/expect is not being met Medicine, J.H. (2003).

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