 We are beginning to reconceive narcissism as a spectrum of behaviors and traits united by specific factors, five factors, three factors, there's a debate about the factors, but we are beginning to have a factor, our factor view of narcissism could be antagonism, self-importance, entitlement, disagreeableness, whichever, ultimately we are going to settle on a list, evidence-based list, verified and proven via experiments and studies, but I think we are going there where we are no longer going to talk about narcissism as a personality disorder. We are going to discuss it in terms of a post-traumatic condition that relies on several factors or brings forth several personality factors and because it's a condition, not a disorder, in other words because it's a process, not a disorder, it's a reactive process, it can be attached to any other mental health issue, including mood disorders, anxiety disorders, even eating disorders. You can find narcissism everywhere, even in schizophrenia, in psychotic disorders, we have grandiose psychotic disorders. Narcissism is not a mental health issue. Narcissism is the very foundation and core of personality formation and personal growth. Primary narcissism is what drives the baby to become effectively human and then we have healthy narcissism throughout life. Narcissism is who we are. It can go bad like cells which become cancerous, but we have cells everywhere and we have narcissism everywhere and we have narcissism in everything, self-confidence, self-esteem and mental health issues. So we should get rid of the conception of narcissism as a specific disorder with a list of criteria and symptoms and if we only get five out of mine, this is nonsense. The spectrum model which is a dimensional model is much closer to the reality and the reality is if you have a mental health issue, you're going to react to the internal trauma of experiencing your mental illness with narcissism. That is inevitable. Experiencing mental illness exactly like experiencing COVID or chronic illness is a traumatic experience and it's superimposed on a traumatic early childhood. So it's a double trauma. It's a resonant trauma. The trauma of being mentally ill resonates with the trauma that had led to the mental illness. It's an echo chamber and to cope with this, we need narcissistic defenses. These are the only defenses we have even as healthy people. So ultimately when we have mental illness, we're going to end up being narcissistic. If we are exposed to trauma, complex trauma, we're going to end up being narcissistic. If we get sick physically, we're going to end up becoming more narcissistic. Narcissism is a survival mechanism. It's a positive adaptation in extreme situations. The problem is when these defenses are leveraged and used in day-to-day life, there's no emergency, no trauma, no mental illness and no chronic illness. That's where the trouble starts. And narcissists need you to manage their internal environment. Narcissism by definition is a diet, not a person. Narcissism doesn't have a personality which makes the whole concept of narcissistic personality disorder counterproductive, not to say nonsensical. Narcissists have no ego. How can they have a personality? Narcissists borrow your personality. You help them to regulate their needs, their cognitions, their emotions, everything, the sense of self-worth. And exactly like people who borderline personality disorder who also have a false self, the aim of the false self is to hail, to interpolate, to cause people to react in highly rigid and structured forms. Rendering them in many ways, pseudo-narcissists as well.