Covert vs vulnerable narcissism - what's the difference?
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Covert narcissists are not always shy or introverted. Theyâre just hiding what they do, because they know people would not agree with it.
EXACTLY
Yes. Totally agree. They're just snakes slithering around the corners, staying out of sight.
I just realized I always find your comment in Dr Ramani video! I'll check your channel
Hiding what they do.
To adjust this statement to the research that Dr. Ramani just explained, a vulnerable narcissist would have both overt and covert expressions of that narcissism that can present as either grandiose and/or vulnerable... if I'm understanding correctly.
Please look after yourself Dr Ramani. You're a wonderful, caring, empathic human being, as well as helping so many of us to understand and heal from the impact of Narcissistic abuse xx
You should save your empathy for the narcissist, they suffer the most. We should stop labelling others and focus on our similarities not our differences. I feel bad for anyone who canât see past these differences.
@@beermilkshake I hear you, but it's ok to have empathy for the doc. Also, I agree that it is important to have empathy for the narcissist, but it's important to know that you can't help them if they don't want to help themselves, so you need to be able to spot this fact so that you can walk away from them and rid yourself of the unnecessary drama. Ramani helps people to understand this so that people accept this and stop trying to help people that clearly don't want it.
@@Leoo117 Thanks Leo, I agree with you, however I do want to draw attention that there are many narcissists that do want to change and they feel very marginalised by the slew of experts that are against them. Just read the comments in this video, people are seething with resentment. The content that Ramini puts out there educates and validates the victims but doesnât do much in creating wisdom and compassion for for this troubled condition from the Narcissists perspective. I think the truth is that both people in these kind of relationships are victims. Just once Iâd like to see a person like Ramini attempt to make contact with the other side and actually help the narcissist.
@@beermilkshake I understand. That's a good perspective. There is a woman on CZcams that not only admits to herself to being a narcissist, but understands her own narcissistic tendencies. She helps people to understand her issues, along with talking about the trials she faces when working on herself. She is very honest about her bad habits, and knows they are not appropriate, but still works to help herself. Many people relate to her. It's basically the type of channel that you are talking about. She is not an enabler, but instead she just shares her own problems, and the reasons for them and how she tries to do better. She is genuine. I can't remember her name, but if I find her channel again, I'll post it here for you.
Edit: The woman I was referring to posted a video enabling and promoting cruelty in the workplace. This one video makes her channel not worth watching, because it is awful advice that leads to misery. Sorry, I didn't realize she held such awful beliefs until she posted that video.
@@Leoo117 yes please do! I would like to see that
I can't think of any covert narc I've come across in my life who wasn't passive aggressive as well. They're almost impossible to reason with. I stopped trying.
Get well soon!! Thank you for this Video...I am a lot interested in the vulnerable narcisists,IT IS so difficult to understand this type of people...it took me almost thirty years to understand what was going on in my relation, thanks to your Videos iam more educated now â€ïž
I feel you on this. I genuinely didn't understand passive-aggressive behavior until a bunch of deep studying. I always felt like the a-hole after exchanges with a vulnerable/covert narc relative, but could never make sense of how or why that person got upset by my comment. But as you said, they're impossible to reason with - they won't just come out & communicate what they are actually upset by. That's the passive-aggressive game. "You should know what you did already!" The amount of attention & energy they're able to suck out a perceived slight is mind-boggling to me.
@@princesskileyrae well said. It's amazing to me that every single passive aggressive covert narc I've come across wants you to read their mind and know what the problem is. If you do somehow figure what the problem is, they'll deny that's that it AND expect you to go along with the denied problem without question. There's no reasoning or compromise. Either you submit or they back off. It gets so frustrating to the point where you (I) explode and they blame you because you can't take their head games.
Now, thanks to Dr. Ramani, as soon as I detect a covert narc, or any narc for that matter, I become the one who discards and walks away.
Exactly. Iâm dealing with such boss right now. Itâs making me feel crazy, unsecure, despondent.
@@mariannami8049 better get get out as fast as you can. Things won't change with this person as they have power and control.
Here's a poem I wrote. Excuse my possible errors, English is not my first language:
I know what monster
dwells inside,
he seems so calm,
but he's in hide.
I know his rage,
sharpness of his claws,
I have marks on my skin,
Oh! How bloody it was!
I know that beast,
don't be deceived,
it will rip you apart
before he's reveled.
You'll cry for help
but no one will hear,
because behind your back
he started to smear.
Run while you can,
and put bridges to burn,
so beast can't catch you,
run and don't turn!
Hey great, I like your verses, keep up the good work! (i am not a native english speaker either, but i love to express myself in as many languages as possible)
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Well-written đŻâ€ïž
@Amber maillet good one
Whoa, that's really good. :)
I used to think the narcissist in my life wasnât a narcissist because they didnât show the grandiosity that was traditionally thought as a narcissistic trait⊠but I always felt something was terribly wrong. Turns out theyâre the vulnerable type.
Howd you find out they were the vulnerable type
@@megalightsfan4948There's a label on the inside of everyone's underwear
@amamdasoares1798. Same here. I couldn't figure out what was wrong & why. He seemed so nice. I'm so thankful to have learned about this now.
Same here. I always felt my relationship was somewhat "off key" but couldn't put my finger on what was wrong. I am more and more convinced I was dealing with a vulnerable narcissist
@@legeneralalexander6618 oh my god COMPLETELY agree⊠I couldnât quite put my finger on what the problem was.. but something was so wrong and I was so so drainedâŠ. He was shy and had very low self esteem but was somewhat entitled and wanted attention from people who didnât know him. He wanted to look cool. I never thought he was a narcissist, but he was typical vulnerable narcissist.
I got drawn into a friendship by a vulnerable narcissist (with overt traits), I got caught up in trying to fix her, and ended up being depleted and manipulated.
Always they are very stealth đ„· & dangerous always a complainer victim so you try to help and Your caught đčđ€Ź
@@lovewhitey2027 You end up feeling duty bound and obliged. At least I learned, though, it could have been a relationship rather than a friendship, which would have been harder to experience. I now know more about what to look out for.
Omg. Same! Then I set her up with a guy friend (before I knew) She ran the game on him for years. Theyâve broken up (she cut us both off) but his coddling and refusal to hold her accountable has damaged our friendship.
@@mojadah10all of this is the story Iâm living right now. It feels so surreal.
Same here - just went through 2 years of confusion and frustration. I am learning that I was trauma bonded to this person who treated me like shit - nice to put a label on them "vulnerable" narcissist - as I didn't think she was to the traits of the common/overt ones?!
This helped. Iâve known since I was a toddler that something was âoffâ about my Dad. He maintained that his life fell apart when I was born. He held enormous grudges against his previous employers and couldnât understand why he could never keep a job. Although his rages were ever-present, punishments from him were mostly passive-aggressive. There was a reason I chose to study psychology at collage, back in 1981, but the courses then offered no insight. Itâs taken another 40 years for me to finally understand what Iâve been dealing with. I feel glad Iâve lived long enough to understand, but so many years have gone by in a haze of misunderstanding.
This channel, Dr Ramani and the comments are incredibly enlightening , we canât undo the past but dissecting, Understanding the past is a road to healing. We all need each otherđŠ
I hear you and know what you mean. This knowledge 40 years ago might have helped my life too.
I have only just realised recently that my alcoholic, abusive Dad was a covert narc. He died when I was 14, now Iâm 42. I wish I could tell my empath Mum all about this, all the things I had learnt about narcs and empaths the past few years, but unfortunately, she passed away 13 years ago. He destroyed our lives!
Hm sounds like me until God changed my heart but then I went back to my old ways again. The passive aggressiveness is quite annoying
Gosh I know this very feeling so well. It's the whole problem. Wblame ourselves because they say its us but we also blame ourselves because we don't know what it is and that all along we were the healthier ones
I know the world of science loves its categories however, out in the wild, it appears to me that all people with this Personality Disorder can use Grandiose, Covert, and Vulnerable tactics in getting what they want. All or some can be seen in a single individual. If they are to be labeled medically it seems they use the category the individual uses most often, but that does not mean the other tactics aren't used by that individual.
10:58 Ramani agrees
Well observed about scientists always trying to categorize in the little boxes they make up. Sometimes it's like they try to digitally input the time in a analogue wind up wristwatch.
Agrees with my field notes
A lot of us who also observe these creatures in the wild do agree.
100% and even us recovering codependents, so called âtoxic empathsâ can sometimes engage in these ego defense mechanisms if sufficiently triggered and/or if that codependent is lacking in healthy boundaries in order to get their attachment needs met. Tricky stuff indeed. Great content as usually, Dr. Ramani.
Covert narcissists are overtly withdrawn and deafeningly silent when their cover is blown.
Dr Ramani
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Yes, neglectful, invalidating and indifferent
I disagree ...I think ur describing just a person who doesn't enjoy socializing... Vulnerable narcissism is a lot more serious problem...u can not have one friend and prefer to be silent and not be a narcissist
And they run the other way when run into!
Yep, my dad has since ghosted me since I started developing an awareness of the true nature of our one-sided relationship. They can sense when their cover is blown and will never accept responsibility for their part or are even open to honest dialogue. They either want the relationship to go back the way it was or to have no relationship.
"What I consider to be the issue of our time" - > Good to hear her affirm that. I really believe we're living through an epidemic of mental health abuse that's probably been going on for a long time but is only now getting openly recognised
Agreed
Is it that the Covert feels sorry for themselves?
Yes! Totally agree with this comment
Better late than never. God bless CZcams.
Took me a while to realize that my narc was BOTH rolled into one delightful package of hatred.
The covert behaviour kept me trying to please my boss, I felt bad letting her down. My dad was an overt narcicist. I was confused and thought my covert boss needed my support, and so did my (enabeling) co-workers. In the end I found out my covert boss was gaslighting me even more than I had recognised from my overt dad. I went throught the devaluation and discarding proces at work before I quit. It's the covert narcicism that made me really doubt myself because I didn't regognise it. Understanding the diffrent forms and expressions of narcicissm is very important! Thanks for this Dr Ramani, we need to understand this pattern in all it's 360 degrees....
It's the covert that really gets you. The overt you can surmise from the behavior and some how manage to keep it in check. The covert gets your trust and love first and then starts the work of tearing you apart. I have a covert narc in my family. She is of the vulnerable kind... until it turned to child abuse, which she conveniently forgot now that I bring it to her attention. In the wilderness she can go from covert vulnerable to grandiose in a nano second. I take responsibility for my life, the only thing I regret is not putting up boundaries sooner.
Yeah, my boss tooâŠ
I can feel for you. I removed covert narcissists in my life and realized all self doubt and confusion are from them. That is crazy.
@@bakpoassylzhan Wow, that's powerful! Thank you for sharing. I'm doing that but that's extra motivation to stay on track
Dr ramani is so beautiful. Although This has nothing to do with the video itself, I just wanted to highlight that, in a world full of filter and glitter, Dr Ramani is such a breath of fresh air.
The more I hear about narcissism, the more I feel like there's a degree of narcissism in all of us! Hopefully, over time - we can learn & change. I think when it's most dangerous is when the older someone gets, the worse their narcissism is! Then what?!
Right i tho this thing the samee
Yes of course there is. The point about pathological narcissists is that they take it too far. Everyone can be selfish sometimes. Everyone can be angry or upset. The narcissist is like that all the time and they have no empathy for others when they hurt them. Their personality is SO narcissistic that they become abusive to those around them. Normal people, even quite narcissistic normal people, aren't like that and will try to change. Narcissists cannot.
If you are emotionally mature enough to see that narcissistic traits can appear in anyone and are able to own your own narcissistic traits, chances are high that you are not a narcissist.
There is a level of narcissism in everyone but the difference is what you do with it. Do you go about loving yourself a little extra or do you use it to manipulate and deceive someone to give harm because you are an unhealed demon!
Narcissism is for survival. Everyone has it! Balance is key. Itâs when the maladaptive behaviors come into play
Thank you, Dr. Ramani, Pincus and Roche! This clarifies a confounding point of confusion for me. Take care of that cold. You are preciously esteemed.
Thank you for breaking this down for us, Dr. Ramani. I have seen the switch with my brother during arguments where he would treat me with so much contempt. Itâs as if Iâm a piece of gum stuck on the bottom of someoneâs shoes. Then heâd turn around and play the victim when called out on his abusive behavior. They think people are beneath them, but are so deeply insecure that anything will trigger them.
That is so true.
Exactly! My narc is a COVERT Grandiose narcissist. She is not shy at all. An extroverted social butterfly that is very successful. But her covert part is why it took me 37 years to figure it out!!! I wish more people would talk about the covert grandiose narc. I feel like people donât believe they exist.
Could you share some of your covert-grandiose narc observations, please?
My daughter in law is grandiose covert. Very difficult to handle.
My girl is this same way, very covert but grandiose as well. Hiding certain things, or jumping back n forth between grandiosity and covertness. It's crazy, I'm about to go no contact again. Wish me luck! đ
Well of course they exist. Most of us are really really scarred from these assholes
The concept of narcissism being on a spectrum is essential for me. Iâve seen narcissistic traits in myself has been difficult to recognize prevailing traits however having two narcissistic parents and my last relationship being with a narcissist who ended up stalking me. I felt the other day that I was good at reading people, maybe more skilled at it then others however this skill did not lead me to predicting an outcome of behaviour (Humbling moment for me) this does make me anxious in wondering if I have grandiose tendencies however it isnât surprising when the viewpoint of narcissism is most of what I had growing up. Or the debilitating shame I live with, constant using myself as a punching bag. Long story short as I study to become a counsellor, I very much appreciate your videos Dr. Ramani.
I wonder if a lot of bullying/pity in childhood can influence a person to become a vulnerable narc later on. I know someone who was bullied constantly and others would just stand around staring feeling sorry for them. (I would stand up for them, but I was smaller and much younger than the bullies and whenever I did I would regret it). Later on in adulthood this person seemed to use pity as a weapon; trying to make people feel sorry for them if they ever felt slighted. They told me personally that the pity had hurt more than the bullying itself. Fortunately this person is much more healthy now.
Maybe itâs trauma, PTSD ore CPTSD, when you are traumatized you feel sorry for yourself, you feel unpowered, you have victim mentality. The difference I think is that when a person is narcissist even vulnerable narcissist he feels superior. Iâm the best but people donât see it. Iâm the smartest, the prettiest, etc. A traumatized person has victim mentality but feels inferior, and is in contact with this feeling.
I was a bully victim too. 6th grade year was the worst for me. Long story short..there are more details about my teenage hood but..too long to explain. Anyway...long story short..one day in 6th grade I snap. I right punch and left hand pimp slap the cowboy kid who physically bully me. I was ready to fight and lose it all. Didn't care. He backed off and tried to be like.."I'm kidding, Give me 5". I gave him 5. Another pimp hand. Right pimp hand slap. After that all the other kids stopped picking on me. The physical and verbal bully stopped. In 7th grade I was a loner. 8th grade year the cowboy kid tried to bully me again and the verbal bully kids tried to do it again but this time I got more..."physical with the cowboy kid". I and other non white kids...aka poor kids we were kind of falling into the "gang category". I sweat him out, punch him, kick him few times, called him out and push him around when he tried to pick on me...there is a ton of details about my life at home, what and others but that doesn't matter in this story. Anyway after a few "contact with the cowboy kid" that send a strong signal to the other kids who tried to verbal bully me. Yes. Some of the "verbal kids" kids tried to verbal bully me and talk smack but a few good.."pushes and sweat" put them in line. Later that year the cowboy kid and I....well I can't say friends..but..we were cool with each other. We talk shit to each other time to time but no harms done. In high school freshman year I manage to shake off the gang category and become a good boy..Kind of. Lol. Anyway...for me..the thought of using the "bully victim child hood" has never crossed my mind. All I know is that the only narc person I have to deal with is my narc ass mom.
@@anitashehu9784 A traumatized person is a victim I don't know why people use the term "victim mentality" in a pejorative way, someone who's actually a victim but is not there displaying warrior/survivor traits.
Nobody needs to be a hero or act like one. I think people feel uncomfortable around people who really display the true mentality of a victim so they don't want it and decided to make it a "bad thing".
The person feels bad, inferior, afraid, pity for herself (maybe no one else does) and can't go out of that state and instead of support or ignore the person gets blamed my others with resentment "oh you just have victim mentality. Just move on, I think it's time".
@@SCH292 my middle school years were bad for me, i got called f@g get alot, and got beat up like 3 times randomly, and bullied alot and few bad personal things also hallen around that time......
and i didnt turned out to be a narcissist , im 30 now, before i met and knew what a narc was, it was this year, i literally had long term relationships , feel empathy fkr some humans and especially animals... lol i didnt turned out to be narc lol
@@SCH292 oh and like 2 years ago one of the guys that bullied me badly in middle school added me in FB and we chat once in a while like adults, and we havent yet discuss why he and others treated me bad which i really dont care lol but still lol u know what i mean
Oh my Iâm so glad to hear this one. I am dealing with a covert narc. And most people canât see right away what I dealt with. Before boundariesâŠI used to be drained all day or i would be in bed all day no energy. As soon as this person was out of my energy field I could literally get up and get ready and do what I need to do. Pay attention to the little things with covert narcs.
I think you should talk about the narcissist in comparison to the normal personality as it relates to responsibilities, crisis, validation, invalidation, issues that trigger actions or responses from both the normal healty mentality and the narcissist. I'm really not clear on the distinction between narcissistic action/reaction and a normal action/reaction. Examples will really help.
Same thatâs a good idea:)
What about the dualistic behavior of many narcissists -- one personality for those closest to them who threaten their ability to control the situation, and for surface-level people (close people tend to have expectations that surface-level people do not)? Very distinct personalities can exist. For example, all the blame from the wounded narcissist could be directed at the person who has done the most for them in their lives, but surface level people are given passes.
IOW, one personality can be an obvious narcissist, but another isn't obviously a narcissistic personality at all. These people are VERY DANGEROUS because they may show the attractive personality to real a person in, then flip the script after, say, marriage paperwork is signed.
This right hear, is a great example of how narcissism is basically a gateway mental illness to many more mental illnesses. A point that needs to made more imo. What your describing is the stepping stones to multiple personality disorder.
@Cooper Young, hi. Narcs are master manipulators. It may superficially resemble dissociative personality disorder/multiple identities, but it usually isn't. It's acting, faking, manipulation and the narc is aware of it all. They switch tactics, styles, and personas with ease and it's all under the control of one personality. They're always holding up a false image in order to get what they want (attention, power, influence) so they get really good at reading a room and slipping quickly from one false face to another.
@Wellness Path For Me it's terrible how abusers work. They carefully cultivate a nice public image. They do it to lull their victims into a false sense of security. They also do it to escape blame and public scrutiny, and to continue their abuse behind closed doors. "Oh, no, your parent/sibling/spouse could never hurt you. S/he's such a nice person!" It leaves the people closest to them, their victims, isolated and cut off from outside aid and support.
Dr. Ramani spoke about getting out before you get entangled but that seems impossible when youâre dealing with master manipulators! They have to entangle you in order to feed off of you.
@@richellelee1086 Well, that's just it... you can see the "surface-level personality," and only that personality, going on for at least 5 years. I *know* this, but I'm not gonna say how I know it. The switch didn't flip until the person thought they had the leverage to flip it. If course, narcissism isn't taught to the plebs, perhaps because it is being engineered in us on purpose!
Iron overload toxicity, bio-copper deficiency, and magnesium deficiency all basically run together in the vast majority of cases. Those three things together appear to produce a hyper-active sympathetic nervous system and excess iron definitely triggers the NLRP3 "fear sensor" protein in the cells.
Fe-ar, get it? Fe -- iron. Hidden in plain site.
Here a couple links that I think are key, just note that "copper toxicity" is really a deficiency of bio-copper (hence an excess of the non-bio-copper form), and refers to iron overload, bio-copper deficiency, and magnesium deficiency.
If you really want to delve into the depths of the "rabbit hole," there is a Biblical prophecy aspect to all of this, too. Let me know if you want to hear it.
Morley Robbins - My Theory Of Everything (Iron Overload) -- czcams.com/video/Iq94ROB5qEs/video.html
Understanding Copper Toxicity (same as iron overload): czcams.com/video/QyV4TgXCGC0/video.html
Iron Homeostasis and the Inflammatory Response -- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3108097/
INORGANIC Metallic Iron Filings in Cereal Video -- czcams.com/video/HGbwFtmJOi4/video.html
Alert For Parents - Heavy Metals In Gerber's Cereal - Can't Verify, But You Can -- czcams.com/video/qw_zIswTTE0/video.html
Note -- NO, this iron is not the same as iron in a bean or spinach. Anyone that says it is needs to pull metallic iron filings out of beans and spinach. They can't.
You can also search out the effects of "copper toxicity" and "calcium shell," but those are both basically iron overload, bio-copper deficiency, and magnesium deficiency (they all tend to run together due to the biochemical nature of the body).
Narcissists benefit the system in a number of ways. Some are so toxic and entitled that they create a tremendous drain on society (which is leveraged into government front power grabs). Others are very motivated by money because that temporarily fills their vacuum, so they will do ANYTHING for cash, effectively become the minions of those who control the global money systems. They don't ask why. And they drain families... and the Money Power Families view every other family on the planet as a threat to their "most fit" status, so the less powerful every other family is, the better.
Thank you Doctor Ramani â€ïž
It took being away from the relationship to fully see that my true offense, the thing I did that upset him more than anything, was that I knew him. I saw him. If he didnât come right out and tell me a thing, and I just observed it on my own, then I was a liar and made the whole thing up and had no business even suggesting such a thing. (Never mind that it looked like a duck and walked like a duck and quacked like a duck⊠if he didnât call it a duck, I wasnât allowed to call it a duck.)
The second worst thing I did was assume that because I cared about him and considered him my friend that he felt the same way about me. Nope. Nothing quite like being told after a 15 year relationship where youâve been the shoulder they cried on and the person they could always depend on for love and support when they needed it that the reason they talked to you was âyou were the only one there.â Ouch. Good thing I had already decided to walk away when he said that. I donât think he realized he was telling me I was right in my decision.
Oh my good fucking lord. I have been through a relationship with who put me through the exact same thing as you described at first. And Iâm having such a difficult time trying to heal because of the damage I put myself through just to make it work. Iâve lost my sense of judgment. All I know now is that I didnât deserve any of that.
And I really do hope that you feel better and that youâre able to pull yourself out of it. Take care of your heart :)
@@nimzm97 I walked away in Jan 2020 and Iâm realizing lately that Iâm not agonizing over it. For a while I knew in my mind I did the right thing but my heart worried that he was alone and friendless while the world shut down. I just had to keep telling myself that HE TOLD ME I wasnât important to him, even if maybe it was a lie. (Because he had also told me a year before I was the only person he talked to outside of his therapist!)
It really does get better. Keep putting your focus on things you know are real and people who truly appreciate you.
@@bitchenboutique6953 Having a big heart does put you in tough spots but atleast we know we tried. Iâm glad you could make the decision to walk away even though it was hard to convince your heart. And sometimes that is the most painful part.
I hope for more peace for you and for people who go through similar things like us
I can relate, my current pending divorce is within a 16 year friendship and 3 year marriage to my covert narc. I can relate to the bond you thought you shared. I too, really believed that our friendship through the years meant something. But this person I didn't know, and turns out I shouldn't have tried to know. I was just a task to accomplish, get, keep isolated, abandon friends and family and to die inside lol. kidding about dying inside but I did almost allow him to continue ruining me, or me allowing him in too deeply and he taking that power to isolate our life's across country alone.
I chuckled out loud when I read "Never mind that it looked like a duck and walked like a duck and quacked like a duck⊠if he didnât call it a duck, I wasnât allowed to call it a duck." haha this is the truest statement. Everything was only true when he said it was first, then the world could follow.
It is a blow! Even though deep down I knew he didn't care. But them saying you were the one who came, or was there. That's it
So what this means is that all NARCs will use these 4 MODES of thought, behavior to monitor, manage their needs . This information has verified the 9 years of living with my X NARC 27 years ago ! It took me 7 years to learn these modes with no knowledge of Narcissistic behavior. After getting familiar with the repetition of mode swings I started using them to mirror my narc and try to force another mode swing that the narc didn't want to go to. As you could imagine. That was the beginning of the END. " I survived "..
Now this makes way more sense - thanks again Dr. Ramani for clarifying everything!
My mother always reminded me of the Kaonashi (No Face) from the movie Spirited away, or the Other Mother from Neil Gaiman's Coraline. She acted vulnerable to get her victims to bond with her out of compassion and empathy, and once they were trapped in her net, she would show her true face. She would try to force you to do her bidding, and when that failed, the victimized manipulation came into play.
That's what my mother does too. It messes with you so bad..! I swing between pity and loathing with her, and often doubt my own actions with her as i question if i am just being "mean" to her when i avoid or ignore her, but if i engage with her i regret it immediately. As Dr Ramani says "You can't win!" It is such an internal struggle tho - the guilt at seeing your mother's vulnerability and not doing anything to help vs the need for self-preservation knowing how it *always* goes. I think i have more work to do on my feelings of guilt & responsibility, and my boundaries. Thanks for sharing that insight - i love Hayao Miyazaki and Gaiman's work too! I find a lot of meaning and symbolism in old fairy tales also. đđ
@@user-vn9sh6hv8r You articulated this really well! Thanks for helping me understand my own experience in clearer terms :-)
Get well soon dr. Ramani and thank you for another great episode! :D
OMG this is what I have been facing for ten years and has been driving me crazy. Thank you Dr. Ramani! đđŒđđŒđđŒđŻ
Miss Freedom- Fighter, Miss Boundary-Keeper, Miss Soul-Healer: I love you! The dedication and love to your craft shines through you. It has brought so many transformative moments in my life, and I thank you with all of my heart.
Thank you doctor. You probably saved my life. đ„°
When I heard your description of the overt and covert vulnerable narcissist, I just realised youâre describing one of the most draining and energy consuming colleagues Iâve ever worked for- suddenly it all makes sense!!!!
This just explained EVERYTHING that I was so confused about for the last 5 years! I thought I was going crazy with the grandiose and vulnerable personality style and then to also see so much overt and covert behaviour wow!!! I have never heard this explained so well! I lived this.. it is absolutely the truth! Thank you Dr. Ramini for your great work. Life changing! My life has changed for the better because of you.
Thanks for explaining this so clearly, Especially The way you made the distinctions of the overt-what we can outwardly see - and the covert - whatâs going on on the inside that we canât see. And thatâs an oversimplification of what you talked about, but it sticks out for me. Also, that the vulnerable of a more grandiose narcissist comes out when they are âout of sortsâ which is a lot of the time. Ha ha. Iâve been through it.
You teach so clearly Dr.Ramani. thank youđ„°
This talk changed my life. I thought I was crazy because i KNEW from my research and education that my partner exhibited narcissist tendencies. My counselor met my partner ( my partner insisted).
Last week I timidly suggested with my extensive CZcams studying lol that my partner is a vulnerable narcissist with overt tendencies.
He said I was spot on. It's hard, I remember our first argument he threatened to get a divorce and leave me. I told my friend the next day, "I think I love him more than he loves me." Thank you and a couple other psychologists on CZcams and my counselor. I can be okay with loving him more than anyone and let him go. I still cry lots but it's okay. It does get better
The covert narcissistic colleague I know makes very little effort to interact with other people in real life. In the beginning, everyone in the office just thought that he was shy and socially awkward.. but within time, I got to know him better and realised he was actually always actively observing everyone and had opinions about everyone and everything (mostly in a judgmental way). And he is very active on social media. Now I know his quietness was just a technique to make people wonder about him and eventually to make others approach him. Because through this, he finds a sense of superiority, which feeds his ego. Itâs his way of manipulating others around him.
They are such dangerous people. They confuse all the people with good intentions who try to help them fit into a new environment (because they made it like as if they needed help very much). And eventually they hurt those good people because of their fragile ego and they are never truly sorry.
It took me so long to get over and understand everything. If not because of all the healthy people in my life, Iâd probably still be in the mist feeling so confused about such a person.
Be careful with new people you come across in life. If what they do and say in private and in public, on social media and in real life is inconsistent, then double up your guard.
Good advice
iâm the same way tho..maybe he just didnât want to be bothered. some people really prefer their own company, introverted and have a mind of their own that forms judgements inside jokes random imagination daydreams bright ideas etc. weâre all observant and we all judge off what you say judge even if we have the conscious to be likeânah that ainât right i shouldnât of said that.â that person just told you what they were thinking and youâre mad bc you didnât think that or had the slightest clue. irony is you judged that person thinking bc they were mild mannered and meak and quiet that they didnât have a mind of their own. no one has to wear their heart on their sleeve and itâs no ones responsibility to make others comfortable with their quiet demeanor. shit at least they told you. goes to show you how aloof they were cuz if they were really intellectually manipulating you they wouldnât have even told you in fear of putting themselves in a bad position. Point is I am that person. I case the joint everywhere I go. And I pick and choose who I want to speak toI donât go out my way to observe. I have eye balls and I can see. I am very good at reading people but not to manipulate them I actually donât want to be bothered tbh. Most people donât appeal to my senses or my energy. I just have no interest in talking with people make or female period. Probably why narcissist pick me out ironically lmao. I like my own company and itâs better to be quiet about the fact that I am not a team player, I know Iâm sensitive, I know I am moody as hell.. Iâm self aware and I can do bad by my damn self.
so many typos but you get my point
Well they have a real fear of rejection. So if YOU goto them, they know you won't really reject them then. You're approaching them. If they goto YOU and you give them this dirty @ss look like "uh why are you here?" this will make them sustain a narcissist injury badly. And to take one of those while on the clock and NEW at a job.. Isn't good for them.
If they have a real disdain for EVERYONE, this could be an actual psychopath. No fuel required hence why they don't need anyone. They fuel themselves. Always goal oriented.
@@daviedood2503 Itâs not as black & white as that. This particular colleague hardly interacted with anyone else but in comparison showed lots of interest in me in the beginning .. I guess it was because of my very obvious empathetic approach to people around me.
That was how I got to see the private side of him as we had interactions outside of work. But even that, he was still very secretive about his own private life⊠Although he did very very diligently put up all his sport achievements on his social platforms and interact very actively with his followers..
Gradually I found that the so called friendship was never reciprocal and I was the only one who was always there for him when he was in need but never the other way around. And that he was also always lying by omission. And that he was never empathetic towards people around him. (He would be literally sitting in front of his desk, focusing on his own work while the entire office is helping each other moving furniture around or unpacking boxes).. So I tried many times wanting to distant him, but every time he just kept on saying âI donât have many friends and I want us to be friends, and Iâll be better.â âŠ
But nothing was ever better.
It almost felt like youâre running a loop again and again. Nothing ever changed.
It was so emotionally draining. Like being with a very needy and immature babyâŠ
Until one day he made a mistake at work and got criticised by his supervisor. He told me about it so I stayed behind after work trying to find a way to help him. But when I was only laying down the facts(of him making the mistake), he lost it and called me being unsupportive( his actual words were much harsher than this)âŠ
That was when I had my epiphany that I didnât deserve to be treated like this and I had to stay away from such a person.
I didnât know anything about narcissism back then. But thanks to him now I do. Consider it as a valuable lesson learnt.
It's SOOOO difficult to live with someone like this. Thanks for the great info. More on vulnerable narcs please!!! There's not much out there on it!!! Not in the way you explain everything you do!
It's very to get out in a relationship...tbh..
Different shades of the narc chameleon. They change their type on a whim, whatever seems to give them the most narc supply in the moment.
OMG! So glad to finally hear someone make the distinction between the two and not lump them together as the same personality. And since coverts won't acknowledg or communicate any of their own issues, characteristics, or areas needing improvements they will instantly deny anything you might have observed and communicated to them. They will refuse to give your words any place or value.
This is so brilliant because so many videos online say "a narcissist does X" all the time. Here, we get nuance as to how narcissism can present in response to specific situations.
We have to be extremely careful to not label actual discrimination victims as vulnerable narcissists. In fact many narcissists will actually project that toxicity onto people who are facing real oppression. For example, if someone brings up how they are facing racism or sexism, toxic people will accuse them of having a âvictim mentalityâ to avoid acknowledging systems of oppression in the world. We also need to realize that if you are being abused by a narcissist who constantly tells you no one likes, loves, helps, or cares about you itâs very easy to internalize that and start believing it which is a tactic of the abuser to make you appear like the narcissistic one when in reality they have been planting those seeds for years. Having low self esteem can be a sign of vulnerable narcissism but it can also be a symptom of narcissistic abuse syndrome so we must be very careful not to mislabel actual abuse victimsđŻ
The fact is a person should get rid of victim mentality regardless!! A part of the process is stop trying to prove yourself!! It is a number one shield from all of the toxic environment⊠Stop over explaining, pleasing, trying to convince people and earning validation.
Yes to OP
Dr. Ramani,
I have discovered you through my therapist after she suggested that because of my upbringing with a grandiose narcissist, I am displaying narcissistic thoughts and behaviors. This terrifies me and I'm struggling with knowing if this is true or not because my mother was over the top abusive and did a lot of unloving, hurtful things that I still struggle to make sense of today. The thought that I could be the same as her, makes me sick. Until seeing this video, I have always felt that I think too little of myself to be a narcissist, but everything you said about vulnerable narcissism resonates with me. There is nothing that I want more for myself than to heal from what has hurt me in my life and have better interactions and relationships with the people in my life.
Is it possible to be a narcissist and not even know it? In the sense of the narcissistic behaviors being unintentional? Narcissists have such a bad, negative reputation for being selfish and intentionally abusive and that's just not who I am. If I am one, I want to do everything I can to NOT be one. I don't think people ever willingly have relationships with a known narcissist, and the general consensus among people seems to be to stay away from them.
YES!!! Finally the answer to my question! I have two narcissistic parents and i've spent a long time trying to figure it out as they both acted differently at different times and it was so confusing. My dad was so vulnerable, blaming, angry, passtive, abscent but then also sadistic, punitive, harsh, grandiose, arrogant, violent at times. Same with mom. It was so confusing. Now i kbow that they are both all the types at different times, baseline is they are both narcissists and hence toxic and abusive.
Story of my life
Right there with you
tanks doc..
as a covert narc, I'm trying to heal through terapy..
but it's always feels like something missing...
I'm so thankful for your explanation..
keep learning this subject and maybe one day... you find a cure..
for my demons and for other demons as well...
o really appreciate your work doc...
i really want to stop feel so entitled all the time...
because I know i no better than anyone else....
and maybe some day I'm going to feel in that way..
Know that Jesus loves you. I am sure it must feel very dark but Jesus can bring light even to the darkest places and heal the deepest most painful
Wounds so I pray that you find Him and see it for yourself. God bless you
The fact that you're willing to admit and repent is huge. Truly God bless you and I will be praying for you. Yes, God loves you and sent his son for you who was perfect but took on your sin so you could be free from sin. While there are still consequences for harmful actions where we harm self or others. There is then no condemnation to them that are "in" Christ Jesus. That's from Romans. Along with wise therapy that understands healing is out there to be had keep humbly praying and reading scripture asking God to show you the truth and set you free through the power of what Christ did on the cross.
I have had these questions in my thoughts. Thank you for making this clear. My husband's behavior over the past few years has flipped to more of a depression, yet I could recognize his narcissistic behavior. This brings the package together, and it becomes clear about the dynamics of a Narcissist. Thank you.
đ Dr Ramani appreciation post: you have changed my life. Also I hope u keep growing out ur natural hair colour. It's so beautiful!
Doctor Ramini is very pretty!! Beautiful inside + out!!
I love it that she is growing out her hair. I find that it's empowering to see a strong intelligent woman being a normal woman and not the let's all look 25 again .. to be valued! Hate how women are seen for looks and not intelligence đđ
@@bereal6590 so so true! I love how she's helping me embrace myself inside and outside! Let's shatter the barriers to being our best selves together! đđđœ
Such interesting stuff. When someone lives with it, sometimes you can't see the trees for the forest... thank you for being our guide to clear a path to see where we're going and where we've been.
Notice how narcissists keep moving the tree's around
@@LSMH528Hz they are constantly felling and re-planting :)
This definitely helped, I was having confusion about these coverts but now I understand
I notice they donât blink normal and stare a lot even into space or at the wall. The ones who i knew were adopted or didnât have a father figure etc. most were entitled and feel theyâre special and better than others. Low or fake empathy. They love money and power, but especially social status.. They love being noticed for charities galas events that give them recognition. Usually with money they stole or fruaded from someone. I also notice they have really thin upper lips and long faces like a crescent moon. Usually with long chin
Exactly đŻ I've noticed the same. especially the eye blinking and staring off.
This is spot on!! My experience, word for word, except the adoption part. My God, these people are like cookie cut outs, carbon copies of one another. They have the same playbook from China to America. It's really unsettling when you think about it.
You know my X? đđđč they act on autism scale so you are disarmed to there coldness
Omg this is my husband.
They rarely yawn either. Usually when someone yawns, it's contagious. Not so with Narcs.
I really appreciate you sharing clinical research with us, Dr. Ramani. The incorrect use of "covert narcissism" has spread like wildfire.
Thank you for giving me the language to understand what I have been through. I saw your interview a few days ago with women of impact and I couldnât stop crying. Now, I just want to protect my children from him because weâre still married.
Wow this explains so much! I was so confused because I know that my ex was definately a covert narcissist how sneaky and subtle he was! And yes at times he played victim and vulnerble! But at the same time!Very out going, love to be seen, charming, nice looking, the helper, arogant, life of the party! Etc... That's when I often got confused because they described a vulnerable covert very isolated and socially awkward, which was not my ex at all! But now that its broken down this way I could totally understand! I was dealing with a Grandious, Vulnerable, Covert Narcissist! Which in my opinion is the worst combination of all forms! Thank you Dr. Ramani for this clarification
The narcissist is a Shape Shifter and this shows the four shapes.
đŻExactly!
Covert Narcissist is how I feel, at least how you describe the internal experience, but I don't think I use these excuses. I've mostly sat and quietly blamed and hated myself. I always got projected on by my parents so I developed a fear of appearing to be self-interested.
It actually took me a very long time to actually acknowledge that the problem was I was being horribly abused, rather than it all being somehow my fault.
SSRIs really helped with the constantly self-vitriol though.
Some of it might just be I'm currently trapped on the edge of a toxic family and living with people who believe I am suffering from a non-specific psychosis rather than choosing to believe me, and I went my entire life being completely invalidated at every turn. I think I might come across as desperate to be believed and it makes me less believable?
People outside the family seem to treat me with dignity and respect, but I can't tell if it's genuine or not. It's such a stark contrast from how family treats me, and I can't tell if it's me or them.
Cognitive dissonance, split perceptions, duality, dilemma, confusion, gaslighting, doubt, lying, mind-games and deception.
All tactics of the covert N. to keep the person unstable, confused, second-guessing, discombobulated and disorientated.
A pendulum of doubt and conviction is what we swing on as we try to make sense of our experience. Potentially, one day the scales finally tip and conviction is reached, you have come to the conclusion that your entire family is under a toxic spell, you are the lowly scapegoat, and your mother / father is the wicked leader at the head of the cult. There has been an orchestrated campaign of death by a thousand cuts against you, for decades and counting...
The way you are noticing being treated by people outside of family is real, but there is cognitive dissonance and a disconnect from natural intuition because you have been gaslight and manipulated so much within the toxic family, this is why total no contact is necessary to heal from the dissonance by never experiencing it again in your life, no where near mentally ill people who are hell bent on manipulating you / destroying you.
That makes a lot of sense, and really helps me understand the picture better. I was lost on why I was seeing both sets of traits at different times, and this really clarifies.
Also, I find it warming, and I trust you more, because you said "Oopsie I got this bit incorrect". I have a tonne of respect for that.
Thank you Doctor R and team for making this video.
Yes Shelly.đđœ clears it up for me also. Sometimes labels are thrown around so much that terminology gets lost in the confusion .
And like you, I SO APPRECIATE Dr Ramani clearing this up for us.â€ïžđđœ
This is brilliant, as always, Doc. Also, because so many of us in the survivor community are also Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACA)/Dysfunctional Families, we can struggle with some black and white thinking. We yearn to sort of clean it all up and get everything in the right box. This is such a good example of how nuanced and varied these issues are in actuality.
Please, what are ADA's?
@@lulumoon6942 Thank you so much because that was a typo and because you voiced in I was able to correct it. Oopse! What I should have written was (Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACA)/Dysfunctional Families)
@@musicman4life gotcha, thanks, as a fellow ACA (thank goodness for the literature on this, big tools in my emotional healing!)
@@lulumoon6942 She's the best! I wish I was able to attend her workshop today. I have a side thing I do as a life passion to educate, support and empower us abuse survivors where I create and curate content. I regularly post Dr. Ramani's videos and make my own inspirational memes. It's fairly new and small but it's a sweet, growing group if you'd like to check it out. Facebook.com/thenarcninja @thenarcninja. God bless and may we all continue to be restored through healing.
Hear that kinda in some ways ye for some reason
This is by far the best simplified explanation of the covert/overt dynamics of the narcissist. đ
I feel like I never really understood or dealt with my narcissistic abuse caused by my parents, then boyfriends over 5 years. Your videos have been such a revelation for me, and have helped me to understand myself and the others around me a lot better. Thank you for putting so much good information out there. I can't afford to see a therapist, but at least I can be better educated. :)
These different subtypes of Narcissists can be confusing. I can see how those authors tried to distinguish these types by defining overt vs covert and grandiose vs vulnerable, leading to 4 subtypes.
However, I don't think this model captures the type of covert narcissist, who engages in behaviors that are different than other types. The strategies and tactics by a covert narcissist are different, so it's not so much about covert narcs and their inner thoughts.
Covert narcs spend more time and efforts towards impression management. Similar underlying issues around shame, pride, entitlement, arrogance, but their efforts are to gain positive social credit for their image. So they may appear humble, when they're not. This is different than a vulnerable narcissist.
Bottom line, it's confusing and there's more to unlock but in the end it doesn't really matter. A grandiose or vulnerable or covert narcissist can cause just as much damage to others and they all lack empathy.
I am just learning about this "vulnerable" and "covert narcissism" in real life! I'm living close to a pair of people consisting of one overt narcissist and one covert/vulnerable narcissism. This framework is helping me sort through some intense gaslighting right now. I am in the process of moving out of these two's lives and it honestly feels like I've been freed. There is ego-demon stuff happening between these two, like a folie-a-deux dynamic.
Off topic, I love that you present yourself with gray hair. You are so genuine and confident.
We really do not need all the products that commercials/consumerism has conditioned us/society to believe.
You are a beautiful Soul! You have helped me and others so much!
Thank you Dr. Ramaniâ€đ
Dr. Ramani, I think I speak for everyone when I say that we'd like to see more of your cat.
Freaking love it! This is the same kind of complexity that arose out of Myers Briggs personality test work, once they identify introvert versus extrovert, and intuitive vs sensing, that now you've got so many combinations the model loses its simplicity. As someone who has been studying this vigorously in an attempt to heal from it, I've been vocalizing and journaling all my thoughts and motivations to see where the needs for grandiosity and validation come from, all while trying to reprogram the inner belief that I don't *need* anything, I'm whole, human, and I don't need a good reason to feel good about myself.
First, thank you for working through this week for all is us even though you are under the weather, Dr. Ramani. I hope you are better soon. Second, this clears up the description of my brother - he is a master of passive aggressive magnanimous behavior. This masks his underlying cruelty to all but his target. Itâs rather impressive. He likes achievements and certificates displayed and framed. He presents as caring and a âgot it togetherâ guy with a high achieving family. And yet, he cannot consider any idea but his own as plausible. He is unable to trust proven achievers in a given realm to do their job well without his guidance and approval. This is especially evident when he has no experience in said realm, but will insist his opinion is credible and must be followed.
Covert/Grandiose.
I once worked for a covert narcissistic boss. It took me a long time to figure it out. The minute i realized it, I quit my job. It was after quitting, I realized how much of gaslighting I was subjected to. Horrible experience to have your reality questioned.
I am new to this narcissist theory and this was an extremely helpful video. I am at the "trying to make sense of what he did to me" stage, and this shifted me forward some in my journey. Thank you!
I have nothing but love and gratitude for you Dr Ramani. The world is a way better place for you being in it, your contribution to our health and well being is immeasurable. Your work and videos have been life changing for me.I 100% agree that Narcissism is the issue of our time (sadly) Once you have educated yourself on this subject you start becoming aware of this fact. I have been deeply impacted by Narcissism, as a scapegoated Highly Sensitive person from a family with a Narcissistic parent, and then subsequent relationships and friendships. All I can say is thank you from the bottom of my heart!
That makes total sense! Finally someone putting all those pieces together! Thank you for this!
Thank you for this Dr. Ramani. It's helped validate my suspicions about someone, who, seemingly having little to no grandiosity for a long while, I became more and more drained by until I became very ill.
I suspect they were a vulnerable narcissist all along and I mistook that for humility, low confidence that needed boosting, and gave and gave emotional and practical support until I was all but depleted. Then, they started devaluing me. I believe now they were building up to discarding me, only I did it first. I really relieved I did and can feel my energy returning and mood lifting in waves, although I still crash and still have days of anxiety and grief. The main difference is now I am concerned about myself and my own wellbeing rather than being consumed with concern, worry and anxiety about THEIR wellbeing! It's like a huge weight is being lifted but there's some injuries from carrying that weight for so long that will take some time to heal.
What does haunt me a bit though, is that I never saw them coming! Vulnerable narcissism badly needs to be brought into public awareness, so thanks and God bless to Dr. Ramani and all who work to educate us on this insidious disorder!
Very true.
I spent 7years of my life trying to understand the covert stuff in my ex narc and all my life trying to understand my narc mom and I can tell you for a fact that I am the one who ended up very badly hurt each time. Dr. Ramani your videos are gold. Thank you.
Oh yes... same here. Vuln narcs will throw you under the bus if their shame is activated
Iâm currently navigating the divorce process with the god awful vulnerable narcissist Iâve spent the last 30 yrs being tormented by. In the end that whiny, thin skinned, toddler.
What were the clear signs they were a vulnerable narcissist
Wow, I was raised by my mother that has NPD. This was very informative and loved the distinction! Thank you for sharing !
THANK YOU SO MUCH for clarifying this. I have been trying to figure this out and feel great relief now. Thank you a million times!!!
THANK YOU for this video! This distinction is SO important, and now that you've explained things, it is SO EASY to see where someone is overt vs covert, and grandiose vs vulnerable. The more videos you post, the more I'm convinced that narcissism is an epidemic in this country.
Thank you Dr. Ramani for staying so current. As I have studied this over the last five years I have been coming to the same conclusion. I've been finding that as the understanding of narcissism advances it is fitting better with what I've experienced and what I have personally thought based on what I've seen. I can see the refining in understanding making more sense to me than some of what was previously thought of by many as settled thought.
Especially when you are showing us the latest in what is scientific { able to be reliably repeated by different scientists performing the same experiment } are you proving you are of the best of the best. Keep keeping us informed on any new developments that can be considered more in the line of hard science not soft because you are correct, this is THE issue of our time.
đWishing you a speedy recovery from that cold! Your EXTRAORDINARY precise videos has had such HEALTHY doses of education for us. THANK YOU!
Thank you so much for this video, wonderful clarity to these terms. And Luna...always a treat when she pops in for support đ
Hope you're feeling better Dr. Ramani, sounds like you're getting over a cold. Thank you for being so dedicated to educating us. Another great video!
What a wonderfully clear and simple explanation. It doesnât seem so hard once explained by a naturally gifted teacher. Thank You
This is so so helpful, thank you! Please never underestimate the positive impact you are having in this area. What a wonderfully succinct and clarifying episode. The endless permutations and manifestations that mean just when you think you've got it and can justifiably "act" , something happens or doesn't happen to muddy the water, again !
Hello there. Thank you for all that you've done for people like myself who have lived a lifetime of narcissist abuse, but not any more. I listen to you frequently and repeatedly and it's made my life better. You rock.
Thank you, Dr. Ramani for continuing to give me and others more insight into the world of narcissism! â€ïž This video is so helpful.....đ
Love you Dr. Ramani! Thanks so much for clarifying. Thank you for being such a great teacher!
Ma'am ... You have defined very clearly, the minute differences of Narcissim... Thank you so much for educating people, who doesn't know about Narcissim and don't know that from what actually they are going through. Thanks for educating and saving people.
I love how humble you are! That is one special characteristic that makes so easy to connect with you! Big hugs!
Such important detail. The grey areas are constantly dizzying but hearing itâs ok to see someone slip in and out from grandiose to vulnerable and even overt to suddenly letting us see a tiny bit of their covert usually hidden stuff helps me not feel nuts. Haha. Thanks Doc. đȘđŒđ
I never understood my cousin who I grew up with like a sister. I loved her and always wanted us to be close. Took me decades to understand why I allowed myself to be treated so poorly. I understand now she is a vulnerable Narc....understanding is freeing.
Best distinction video Iâve seen yet. Thank you for the detail and clarity. Awesome
So much clarity! Take care of yourself Doctor R!!! We care about you
Thank you Dr. ! This makes perfect sense, and clarified a lot!
Truthfully the more and more I watch from you the more I realize how much I want to kick these tendencies. Growing up with a narcissistic mother and mother figures really messes with a growing mind. Be healthy Dr. Ramani I'm fighting my covert tendencies and learning to control my overt reactions while just absorbing this new 'vulnerable' terminology to take into account for curbing a generation of narcissistic traits. To those fighting or dealing with such individuals with these traits or tendencies keep learning and use extreme patience on unweaving the spider web of traits learned and to provide support for those "undoing the vulnerabilities" cast upon them to battle the NPD. I'm trying this on my own as I feel I know my own process and just need the terminology to pinpoint where I need to criticize my own invulnerabilities to crawl my way out of that dark and heavy mindset. Good luck and keep learning and trusting your instincts. I find unconditional love from my dad's moms family really is helping me to heal from the destruction caused from the past to be able to curb my insecurity to slowly build on living that empathic life. My perception is that a narcissist is created after they're completely destroyed mentally and brainwashed emotionally to blindly learn at an energy level where spiritually they will learn toxic principles. Canadian First Nations endured this through the fallout of assimilation. This is how I believe my parents both acquired this mental illness. Be it covert or grandiose. This is my perception on what I've learned on indigenous struggling with narcissistic traits. Hope this helps for any research purposes Dr. Ramani. Have a good day!
It's all over the place but once in a blue moon I'll have this crazy idea to speak what I think and just ramble on about maneuvering my way through my own mind. Trying to figure out how to say stuff without overtly looking for validation and covertly looking for that validation through favors or whatever else narcissists use for supply. Using myself to provide intellectual information is how I find my own validation to be able to spread my perception on what I find useful to share different points of view like in a narrative 3rd person perspective. Laying all my thoughts out and working on becoming as genuine as possible for myself.
You may have some " traits" because you had to learn the narc language to survive...but a full blown narc does not think they have a problem...they can not introspect...
Get well soon Dr ramani, God bless you. Appreciation for your time and effort!
Definitely the best clarification on this topic that I have heard. Now the spectrum makes so much sense as I see the whole pattern. Thank you Dr Ramani!
Thank you for this comprehensive explanation. Clarifies my lived experience perfectly!
This was very helpful in understanding the complexity of narcissistic personalities. It is clearly multi-layered and it's helpful to know that they can vacillate between covert, overt, vulnerable, and grandiose. It seems to me that the hallmarks include a lack of empathy or understanding for anyone, gaslighting, blame-shifting, scapegoating, and a whole ton of lying and hiding the truth they do not want to see. I have known for many years that my father has undiagnosed NPD. I still unravel the impact of the disease on everyone around him. Now that my mother is incapacitated with dementia, he cannot hide his extreme control and inability to accept the world as it is becoming versus the world as he insists it needs to be. Your videos have been a big help to me both as a clinician and the daughter of a man with NPD. (And then there was my ex-husband too!)
Omg this describes the behavior of someone close to me. Not spouse, thankfully. Thanks for being here and helping us all, Dr. Ramani. đđŒ Iâm going straight over to your videos about how to heal from this stuff. And I love your cat! đ
Dr Ramani, thank you very much for your great work. You don't have an idea how much it is helping me. You are doing an amazing job for the benefit of the general public.
Excellent synopsis, Dr. Ramani. Thank you so much.
Thank you so much for explaining this. I can now see that the guy I was recently seeing was an overt vulnerable and covert grandiose narcissist.... the complete opposite of my ex husband who was overt grandiose and covert vulnerable. I mistook these seemingly opposite characteristics for this guy being âdifferentâ to my ex and therefore good (he seemed so sensitive and empathetic at first), which left me feeling confused when his actions didnât match his words. I understand now.
Also please take a day off! We can all wait
This woman is absolutely amazing. She breaks it down in such detail from a very logical point of view. Dr. Ramani is shedding so much light on narcissism, so glad I ran across her videos and am now subscribed
here after finding out I was being cheated on by a covert-vulnerable narcissist.. 10 years wasted. thank you for the videos. it is bringing me some comfort to know I am not crazy.