Read your reply on another comment and i do agree to an extent that we must reinforce that it isn’t a disease but description. However again mental illness is as much as a problem as physical illness however invisible it looks. It needs to be acknowledged and treated accordingly, yes falling back on its defence hinders progress especially with narcissism where we are the center of the world but for those who actually do try to combat it is a disease. And no there is not just impairment in outward relationships it is the non existence of a central core and pure bewilderment at moments. I agree with most of your post, this shouldn’t be a place of any type of promotion of oh im special but mostly people would write different if we were to describe ourselves. Npd is shitty asf it wishing for days that you were normal that good things would come naturally to your brain, that you could figure out your own self so yes we are different from people who don’t have these agonising battles daily but we must also not use it as an excuse.