No. When gettingthere described your NM as "PM," I assumed that's what you had concluded she was."
The reason I referred to her as a PM was that I consider all people with Narcissistic Personality Disorder (Ns) to have some aspects of Anti-Social Personality Disorder (Ps and Ss). I have not known an N who wasn't also a P, but I have known Ps who were not Ns.
NPD is a recently recognized disorder (only since 1980) AND most psychiatric professionals very rarely see Ns. Ns seek treatment only when forced by court order or spousal insistence (and are uncooperative or in denial in those instances) or after severest narcissistic injuries (when they actually seek help on their own and provide more cooperation).
I would not be surprised if the experts eventually reclassify NPD as a subset of ASPD, instead of making it a separate category in the cluster B personality disorders, after they do more research into it in the future.
That is why I sometimes refer to Ns as either Ns, Ps, NPs, or Narcissistic Sociopaths - to me, they're all N-related.
I understand that my viewpoint is not written in stone and is open to debate.
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