Is anyone else exhausted by how casually people throw around 'narcissist' now?
Genuinely not trying to start anything, just something I've been chewing on.
It feels like every ex, every difficult coworker, every parent who set a boundary wrong ONE time gets slapped with "narcissist" now. And I get it, there's real awareness happening around narcissistic abuse that wasn't there 10 years ago, that's a good thing.
But I've also noticed people using it as a way to avoid looking at their own patterns. Like it's easier to say "I dated a narcissist" than "I kept ignoring red flags" or "I have a pattern of picking emotionally unavailable people."
Not saying real narcissistic abuse isn't real, it absolutely is. Just wondering where people draw the line between "this person has NPD-level traits" vs "this person was just selfish/immature/a bad match for me."
Curious what you all think, especially anyone who's actually studied this vs just lived it.