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- Lack empathy
- Very disrespectful of others
- Regularly make and break promises
- Always have an excuse for all of their behaviour and comments
- If they apologise, it is always general and never sincere and they do not change their behaviour
- They are always angry or irritated, or are just hiding it under a very thin veneer
- Expect perfection from others but expect to be “let away with it” for themselves
- Have little or no self-awareness
- Constantly try to prevent others from expressing themselves
- Hyper critical of others
- Regularly attack the reputations of others by lying, sneering etc.
- Confront others rather than connect with them
- Pathological liars
- Thieves
- Refuse to be accountable or take responsibility for their own actions
- Can only think in the very short term
- If they decide that they want something they will go to any lengths to get it including criminal activities
- Use people and treat them as objects
- Try to curtail the freedom of others
- Try to arrest the development of others
- Try to hinder the development of their own children so that they can keep them focused on the parent
- Have no friends, just acquaintances
- Don’t listen to anyone
- Assume that everyone tells lies as much as they do
- Assume that everyone is as self-serving and amoral as they are
- Have issues trusting others (think that others think like they do)
- See kindness as a weakness
- Hyper defensive of self and hyper critical of others
- Argumentative for no reason
- Constantly contradict themselves which creates confusion as it is difficult to understand what they mean. They don’t know either
- Behaviour changes depending on who is around them
- Unforgiving
- Enjoy others misfortune detest others happiness and success
- Terrible gossips, betray other people’s secrets
- Completely self-absorbed unable to see another person’s point of view
- Prone to temper tantrums
- Quit when things get tough
- Expect others to take care of all of their needs without any reciprocity
- Get angry when others express or assert themselves
- No core beliefs or values
- Pathologically envious/jealous of others
- Always have to be right, get inappropriately angry when people disagree with them
- When in an argument they fight to “win” not to find a solution
- Extremely manipulative
- Use weakness and vulnerability (victim syndrome) as a tool for manipulation while abusing others
- Violate people’s privacy, will open post, text and emails etc.
- Will happily be disrespectful of other people’s reputation in an attempt to make themselves feel more important
- Cannot be teased, will end in temper tantrum
- Fear of being abandoned
- Fear of being ignored
- Fear of being disrespected
- Extremely ungrateful
