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Acupuncture Treatment For Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Narcissistic Personality Disorder is a mental health disorder. Therefore, the acupuncture treatment
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Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) is a personality disorder in which there is a long term pattern of abnormal behaviour characterised by exaggerated feelings of self-importance, an excessive need for admiration, and a lack of understanding of  others’ feelings.  People affected often spend a lot of time thinking  about achieving power or success or about their appearance.  This behaviour typically starts in early adulthood. Unfortunately, people with this disorder usually don’t consider themselves to have a problem.
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SYMPTOMS

CAUSES

TREATMENTS

 

SYMPTOMS

 


People with Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD)usually showing symptom or behavior like :
– Extreme sense of self-importance
– Need to be recognized as being superior
– Frequently fantasize about success, power, brilliance, beauty or the perfect mate
– Urge to be admired constantly
– Sense of entitlement
– Take advantage to get what they want

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CAUSES

 


The inherited defect of genes are considered to be the best cause of NPD. Environmental factors also play a role in shaping this disorder, which are childhood abuse or neglect, excessive parental pampering, unrealistic expectations from parents, sexual promiscuity, and cultural influences.
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TREATMENTS

 


Related Acupuncture Points :

ST36 RF HT7 BL44 E

Acupuncture Treatment For Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Narcissistic Personality Disorder is a mental health disorder. Therefore, the acupuncture treatment given is aiming to treat the cause of this mental health disorder. Mental health disorder happen because there is imbalance within human body. The imbalance itself can come from excess or lack of yin and yang. In order to give the proper treatment for mental health disorder, the therapist must know the effect of the five elements to the emotions, which is as follow :
Wood (Liver) – Anger, jealousy, frustration, resentment, bitterness and stress
Fire (Heart) – Mania and over-excitation
Earth (Spleen) – Anxiety, pensiveness and worry
Metal (Lung) – Grief and sadness
Water (Kidney) – Depression and lack of will

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Footnotes

  1. Narcissistic personality disorder – Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_personality_disorder
  2. Narcissistic personality disorder Symptoms – Mayo Clinic, http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/narcissistic-personality-disorder/basics/symptoms/con-20025568
  3. Narcissistic Personality Disorder – Healthline, http://www.healthline.com/health/narcissistic-personality-disorder#Symptoms3
  4. Acupuncture and Mental Health – Acufinder.com, https://www.acufinder.com/Acupuncture+Information/Detail/Acupuncture+and+Mental+Health