Quora: When a narcissist becomes self-aware how can they live with themselves?

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 This doesn’t happen. May as well ask what happens when the Unicorns reach the top of Gumdrop Mountain.

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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