What Might Drive a Narcissist to Suicide?

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What Might Drive a Narcissist to Suicide?
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Understanding why people with Cluster B personality disorders are more prone to suicide might help prevent it. Here's how.

needs to be devoted to narcissists’ potential for suicide. We need to better appreciate the different factors that provoke it and how best to treat those most vulnerable to it.

Ironically, narcissists’ defenses are such that it’s more important for them to stand out from others than to experience “belonging." Nonetheless, it’s their almost constitutional separateness from the rest of us that puts them at higher risk of harming themselves. Unknowingly, they desperately need to feel a more intimate mental and emotional tie with those surrounding them. Only then can they be protected from a sense of alienation that, perhaps more than anything else, renders them vulnerable to experiencing hopelessness that makes their life feel no longer worth living.likely to help them ought to focus on assisting them in rejoining the human community from which they experience so much detachment.

Brioschi, S., Franchini, L., Fregna, L., et al. . Clinical and personality profile of depressed suicide attempters: A preliminary study at the open-door policy mood disorder unit of San Raffaele hospital.

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