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Old 06-12-2019, 09:50 AM
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I think that there might be a lot of overlap between A and narcissism. Idk which is the chicken and which is the egg but there seems like there’s some correlation. Maybe booze brings it out? Idk.
I am an alcoholic. I just went to the Mayo clinic website to check out their section on narcissistic personality disorder. I don't believe that I fit in the category in either my active drinking years nor in my recovery years. I don't know about other alcoholics but for me narcissistic personality disorder is not applicable.

Narcissistic personality disorder can be found in a wide range of lifestyles, sometimes accompanied by alcoholism, sometimes not.

Alcoholism does however highlight the negative aspects of a person which then overshadow the positive aspects of that person and even sends the positive aspects into hibernation. Hard work and recovery can awaken those positive aspects which can then work on diminishing the negative aspects.
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