Do people with premature heart disease have narcissism in them?
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Dr. Dean Ornish answered:"Narcissism, means no self, no real self. You live an image which keeps you away from you r own body, your own heart. You may appear self-centered, but there is no real self, so therefore you are the world, and there's no boundary. Many people with premature heart disease have significant degrees of narcissism in them. They can't feel their feelings, and so for them love is an ideal, not real. Actually, narcissists are nice people, very sensitive - just very lonely. The problem is, our mothers who taught us to talk struggle with those same issue s and suffered in a similar way. They couldn't really see us, so they taught us affective language which couldn't reach us, and so we learned that real talk is problematic. Narcissism is the inability to live in your own body, so you live an image. The journey back home is to come back into your body, into reality, into real feelings into your heart."
"Narcissism, means no self, no real self. You live an image which keeps you away from you r own body, your own heart. You may appear self-centered, but there is no real self, so therefore you are the world, and there's no boundary. Many people with... More -
J.Lucy Boyd answered:I'm not aware of any known connection between premature heart disease and narcissistic personality disorder. Narcissistic personality disorder can cause a great deal of stress in the individual, which is a risk factor for heart disease. This risk may be increased if the individual uses poor stress management techniques such as smoking cigarettes or drinking more than a moderate amount of alcohol.
I'm not aware of any known connection between premature heart disease and narcissistic personality disorder. Narcissistic personality disorder can cause a great deal of stress in the individual, which is a risk factor for heart disease. This risk... More
