Inside the Narcissist’s Mind: From Fantasy to Psychosis

The ‘game’ cannot be stopped.

It starts with fantasy and ends in psychosis.

Narcissists are born with a strong preference for fantasy over reality.

As their young minds developed, instead of observing reality around them, gathering memories as life experience, and building paradigms to model the world around them, they fantasized.

Their fantasies led to dissociation from reality.

(I recognize that children naturally fantasize a lot. That’s not what I’m talking about. A narcissist child fantasizes much more than a normal child, but most importantly, values the delusions of their fantasy over reality itself. The divergence starts at a young age, the choice is quietly made between tentatively choosing the truth of the reality out there, or the falsehoods and delusions from the dark room of the mind. This initial tentative choice will have great repercussions into the future, as initial conditions are highly important in feedback systems like our minds and character.)

Now fantasies become their ‘experiences’, not life itself. Memory formation is stunted. Skill in processing life experiences is never learnt. Observation and honest perception is never developed. No paradigm formation takes place.