Diagnosed narcissist shares one question to ask someone to tell if they have the condition

A man who is diagnosed with narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) has come out to explain just one way you can find out if someone around you has it too.

Now, if you didn't know, NPD is a mental health condition that requires diagnosis by a professional who uses a particular criterion that hits targets of a typical person displaying NPD.

This includes things like feeling self-important, lacking empathy, and requiring attention from others.

Those who have NPD may also have low self-esteem and struggle with relationships because of their main-character mindsets.

One such person is Jacob Skidmore – also known online as The Nameless Narcissist.

He is a US-based content creator from Ohio who isn't shy (duh, NPD) about talking about himself or his condition.

From what goes through the mind of someone with the condition when you ask for an apology, to how they can easily discard someone or something they once cared about, he lays it all out.

Now, he's telling people how to spot others like him.

"Nowadays I’m (obviously) very open about my condition but, since I was aware of the opinion most people had about it, I didn’t tell anyone for around two years," he told LADbible earlier this year.

"I know some people with NPD that have gone decades without disclosing it out of fear of judgement. That’s the issue with having such a shame driven disorder.

"It’s hard to tell anyone something that you think they’ll judge you for."

Meanwhile, in a video from 2023, Jacob opened up about what question you need to ask someone to find out if they have NPD.

Beware, it's a long one.

"So I'm a diagnosed narcissist, and this is a question that was proposed to me by another friend of mine who is a diagnosed narcissist," he began.

"And when I heard it, I was like, 'Oh my God, yes, finally somebody said it'. Like the answer to this question felt so objectively true to me.

"And I was shocked that, finally, I met somebody else who can see the reality of things. Naturally, that's not reality, it's my disorder but still.

"Ask them: 'Don't you think that there are just objectively better and worse people in the world, and people who are superior and inferior and the rest of the world just wants to ignore that?'"

He explained: "Even better if you add something implying that you and that person are both part of the like upper echelons.

"Narcissists view the world through that lens, through the ideas that there are people who have more inherent self-worth and some people who have less self-worth, people who are better than other people and people who are worse.

"That is a central core belief that drives their actions. And it is why constantly they're trying to prove that they are part of the better people because, deep down, they think they're part of the worst people."