Who they are

An organized group of individuals with these character traits
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- Gross Exaggeration
- Pretentious and grandiose attitude
- Below average intelligence
- Superficial appearance
- Naive
- Recurrent and persistent thoughts, impulses, or images that are experienced as intrusive and that cause marked anxiety or distress
- Repetitive behaviors or mental acts that the person feels driven to perform in response to an obsession, or according to rules that must be applied rigidly
- Disorganized speech, which is a manifestation of formal thought disorder
- Delusions & Hallucinations
- Affective flattening (lack or decline in emotional response), alogia (lack or decline in speech), or avolition (lack or decline in motivation)
- Is preoccupied with unjustified doubts about the loyalty or trustworthiness of friends or associates
- Is reluctant to confide in others because of unwarranted fear that the information will be used maliciously against him or her
- Reads benign remarks or events as threatening or demeaning.
- Persistently bears grudges, i.e., is unforgiving of insults, injuries, or slights
- Tendency to experience excessive self-importance, manifest in a persistent self-referential attitude
- Ideas of reference (excluding delusions of reference)
- Odd beliefs or magical thinking that influences behavior and is inconsistent with subcultural norms (e.g., superstitiousness, bizarre fantasies or preoccupations)
- Odd thinking and speech (e.g., vague, circumstantial, metaphorical, overelaborate, or stereotyped)
- Emotional coldness, detachment or reduced affection.
- Limited capacity to express either positive or negative emotions towards others.
- Very few, if any, close romantic relationships, and a lack of desire for such.
- Overreacts to criticism, becoming angry or humiliated
- Uses others to reach goals
- Exaggerates own importance
- Entertains unrealistic fantasies about achievements, power, beauty, intelligence or romance
- Has unreasonable expectations of favorable treatment
- Seeks constant attention and positive reinforcement from others
- Is easily jealous
- Has a sense of extreme entitlement
- Is exploitative of others
- Lacks empathy
- Displays arrogant, haughty and proud behaviour.
- Uses denial mechanism to downplay own inadequacies or failings
- Uses rationalization mechanism to justify self-centered behavior
- Shallow, materialistic, and exhibiting false emotions through an exaggerated affect display.
- Pseudointellectual
- Pathological lying
- Lack of remorse or guilt
- Callous/lack of empathy
- Failure to accept responsibility for own actions
- Many short-term marital relationships
- Grandiose sense of self-worth
- Promiscuous sexual behavior, sexually deviant lifestyle
- Poor judgment, failure to learn from experience
- Failure to follow any life plan
- Inability to distinguish right from wrong
- Deceitfulness/manipulativeness
- A sense of extreme entitlement
- Reckless disregard for the safety of self or others
- Irresponsibility
- Relationship to sex offenders
- Aggression to peers, not necessarily physical, which can include getting others into trouble or a campaign of psychological torment.
- Cruelty to animals beyond an angry outburst.
- Firesetting and other vandalism. Not to be confused with playing with matches, which is not uncommon for preschoolers. This is the deliberate setting of destructive fires with utter disregard for the property and lives of others.
- Lying, often without discernible objectives, extending beyond a child's normal impulse not to be punished. These lies are so extensive it is often impossible to know lies from truth.
- Believes that he or she is "special" and can only be understood by, or should associate with, other special or high-status people (or institutions)
- A need for constant attention
- Greed, expecting to receive before and above the needs of others, overworking those around them, and forming romantic (sic) or sexual relationships for the purpose of advancing their purpose or career, abusing special privileges and squandering extra resources also feature commonly in this disorder.
- Pathological obsession with individuals
- Obsessive intrusion into individuals personal affairs
- Pathological need to assert control over person
- Bullying, rumor mongering and gossiping about individual to manufacture dependence through depression