What Narcissists and Borderlines Have in Common and in Opposition
No, we’re not the same, and these diagnoses cannot be co-morbid
Due to rampant misinformation on cluster b disorders, the conflation of NPD and BPD are one of the most misunderstood things.
Too often, I have clients who are very clearly borderlines themselves, saying they “did their research on Quora” and discovered that their ex is both narcissistic and borderline.
No. These two disorders are in opposition to one another.
The reason there is so much misinformation is because narcissists mask as their family scapegoats — borderlines who are highly empathetic and well liked.
Narcissists also smear their exes and accuse us of the things they did.
There are so many frauds within NPD spaces who have NPD themselves: they are here for the supply of vulnerable people and to project and spread confusion.
With a narcissist, that person you fell in love with was the parody of the scapegoat in their family and other scapegoats they have absorbed from mirroring friends and lovers in the past, and the most sensitive and genuinely…
