[.cnI redruM]

I find this fits at least 2/3rds of the politicians and at least 1/5th of the higher ranking military officers I've ever met. This is a profoundly sick society.

[reformedliberal]

My mother has this diagnosis.

What has surprised me over the years is the number of people I have known whose mothers ALSO have this diagnosis.

One of the results of growing up with this sort of personality disorder, is that perhaps 75% of these people have an infallible ability to detect it and to resist the resulting manipulation.

The other 25%, IMO, become either emotionally disordered, narcissists or their enablers. This is supported by my observations of my own sibling. The people I have known who had to endure this sort of parenting all seem to have at least one sib who has become just like the parent.

To your observation, I would add that ALL the District Administrators of our small school system have all 9 of the diagnostic traits of narcissism.