Narcissism is our latest online moral panic!
has taken its toll on the community. “I feel like there's a ton of confusion over the word narcissist right now,” says Helena*, a moderator of r/raisedbynarcissists from Illinois. “As much as I love our community – I think it's done a lot of good – I don't think that the name of this group helps at all.”
Despite the moderating team’s best efforts to educate its users, many members of r/raisedbynarcissists tend to immediately conflate abusers and those with conditions like NPD. “People will promote a lot of misinformation. They start talking about eugenics,” says Helena, whose attempts to erase and correct such posts with her fellow moderators prove to be an uphill battle each week. “They talk about how these people shouldn't be allowed to be born. They think they should be murdered.
Unfortunately, according to Dr. Malkin, casual stigma makes it easy for people to think this way. “These people are not psychologists, so they tend to focus on narcissism in its most pathological forms,” he says. Often, the people who take this view are trying to help survivors of abuse, or understand abuse they’ve experienced themselves, but this hardline thinking only serves to further endanger victims.
While the internet’s obsession with narcissism may stem from the very real need to help victims of narcissistic abuse, it has in large part contributed to a monstrous stereotype of a personality disorder. As with a number of unfortunate offshoots from a burgeoning “”, the results are a mixed bag, but also an inevitable consequence of a world trying to do better in a tumultuous information age. “Are they all dealing with narcissists? Maybe, maybe not.
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