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She is normally capable of, if anything, much more nuanced thinking than most people, but this collapses under significant stress/triggers At those times the pendulum swings very far the other way, towards a far more black-and-white, simplistic interpretation than average.
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It's interesting to me how this clashes with narratives about narcissistic people, that 'they', monolithically, always think like that. From my experiences, it's pretty clear that it's a conditioned, abnormal set of compensatory mechanisms (and absence of other common ones).
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Yes, that has been my ordinary experience too. I strongly suspect this stems from both the peculiarities of the disorder (broad disregard for others and their perspectives), and the collective narcissism of therapists deeming it incurable simply because most therapies are bad.
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It does, and it's very strange to experience from the outside. She has very minute understanding of the flaws in her own personality, but still exists inside it. Use it as a mirror, and it's pretty revealing about one's own pathologies, too. Everyone is messed up somewhere.
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