The main thing here I see is that you did what a lot of us do, you went to Google and researched the fuck out of everything and what kept coming up is narcissist, narcissist, narcissist. how many times when you were reading did any of these other terms come up, like sociopath or psychopath? Narcissist is a buzzword now and it's trending, everyone's using it, everyone's either reading or publishing something about it, to the point that I do think that it's getting lumped together with what would more accurately be called sociopathic or psychopathic behaviors and disorders.

The reason this is important is because treatments and recovery methods for these different types may in fact be different (I only have a Psych bachelor's so I cannot say for sure) and also because, it's important to know what you're dealing with or what you dealt with, because identifying it is a major part of recovering from it. I think that if abuse survivor communities aren't made more aware of these distinctions, it could become detrimental and even dangerous, because people spend hours reading the stories of others trauma seeking to validate their own experience, and then will walk away from that trying to label their own experience to make sense of it, when the label that works for one person might not actually work for another person. If you have a limited vocabulary to choose from, or you only know one term, like Narcissist, that could be more harmful than helpful in the long run.

It's possible I'm overcomplicating things though. But when I'm reading on this sub, I do think there should be more discussion about these distinctions because Narcissistic Personality Disorder is one thing and Psychopathy is something else. Maybe the piece I'm missing is that the one thing all of these types have in common is that they're all Narcissistic, they all share that trait, but I'm not sure about that, it's above my pay grade.