Originally Posted by
wanttobehealthy Maybe the distinction is this... True NPD is a mental illness, a personality disoder and may be masked at times by addiction but is there, sober or not...
Alcoholics in active states of alcoholism may well behave in a narcissistic/self absorbed way... But that does not in and of itself make them narcissists...
Thank you, you said it so much better, then I did
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