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Some people with Borderline Personality Disorder (often mistaken for Narcissistic Personality Disorder) seem to occasionally have flashes of self awareness, it makes them depressed, self-hating, and suicidal. They can’t bear to see themselves and their behavior so clearly, so they will switch to denial, possibly over indulge in an addictive behavior, and/or rage-out , shame and blame someone else for whatever horrid thing they glimpsed oh-so-briefly in the mirror of their soul.
Don’t wait around for the disordered person in your life to wake up, become self-aware, and try to do better. That’s not likely to happen. Move along without that person in your life and do what you can to be self-aware, self-respectful, and do better for yourself.
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