I was told I’m a narcissist – I’ve never been happier

I couldn’t open up to people and show the ‘real me’ for fear that I’d be too vulnerable (Picture: Dimitra Staikou)Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD).When I first heard those words of diagnosis. I didn’t believe them. It is a defined mental health condition, characterised by a need for admiration, lack of empathy and a grandiose sense of self-importance. Until my diagnosis in 2024, aged 33, everything I’d read about narcissists was negative: they tra