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Narcissists Are Giving Advice About Narcissism

Can we trust what they are saying?

Colleen Sheehy Orme
4 min readJul 17, 2021

I was watching a guy online who says he was diagnosed with Narcissistic personality disorder. He says he is self-aware, wants to help people, and believes he is a narcissist.

Can you point out how many things are wrong with that paragraph?

A narcissist who recognizes his behavior, knows he is one, and cares??!!

Is It within the realm of extremely rare, acts of God, type miraculous that a narcissist can be rehabilitated? Yes, though again it would be exceptionally uncommon.

Let alone to the degree that they want to help people on the savior level.

Don’t get me wrong.

I can’t say with certainty this isn’t a possibility.

But there’s a reason it’s not a high probability.

We understand we should be wary of trusting a narcissist. We should be equally leery of trusting someone who is calling themselves a diagnosed narcissist and offering advice.

For the following reasons:

True narcissists deny narcissism

Our marriage counselor sent me home with a book about living with a narcissist.

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Colleen Sheehy Orme
Colleen Sheehy Orme

Written by Colleen Sheehy Orme

National Relationship Columnist, Journalist & Former Business Columnist. I cover love, life, & relationships— #WomanResurrected colleen.sheehy.orme@gmail.com

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