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Narcissistic personality disorder is a very rare and very hard personality disorder to cope with and treat as narcissism makes the patient very blunt, and refuse that anything is wrong with them. From the patient's perspective, everything is wrong with the individuals surrounding them, particularly the individual diagnosing them. The patient is left with a feeling of being victimized as a result. Patients reflecting narcissistic personality disorder demonstrate high amplitudes of self-love which can be a good thing but in this case can affect the way the client looks at everyone else as below them on the "social pyramid" with little to no empathy for their peers. The social pyramid has always been prevalent in this world and clients with NPD believe that they're at the top of that pyramid and everyone else is lesser than them. Clients with narcissistic personality disorder are shown to be very unaware of their own mental states, because they show such high levels of narcissism they are unaware of how their negative behaviors affect others around them. The patients lack of insight of other's emotions interferes with their ability to understand the impact of their own behaviors resulting in negative effects on personal relationships. Lack of empathy is one of the biggest traits of narcissistic personality disorder which can be caused by many different things as empathy is learned at a very young age. A lack of human interaction and loving relationships early in life can lead to this absence of empathy later in life, leading the patient to demonstrate problems with emotional recognition, meaning that they are unaware of other individuals emotions around them, which may be related to the development of narcissism in the patients behavior.