What causes narcissistic personality disorder?
Narcissistic personality disorder is caused by either a direct or indirect form of child abuse. The child’s “real self” is not accepted by the parent(s)/caregiver thus leaving the child with 2 alternatives – either to feel like “nothing” or to create a false self that the child constructs to ward off his/her feelings of nothingness. All the person’s energy goes into creating and sustaining this false self at the expense of losing the real self.
