Narcissistic personality disorder

[Dave Paprocki]

Narcissistic personality disorder is characterized by a pervasive pattern of feeling superior (grandiosity), needing admiration, and lacking empathy.

People with narcissistic personality disorder overestimate their abilities, exaggerate their achievements, and tend to underestimate the abilities of others.
Doctors diagnose narcissistic personality disorder based on specific symptoms, such as an exaggerated, unfounded sense of self-importance and talents, a need to be unconditionally admired, and a sense of entitlement.
Psychotherapy that focuses on underlying conflicts may help.

Personality disorders are long-lasting, pervasive patterns of thinking, perceiving, reacting, and relating that cause the person significant distress and/or impair the person

[Marquetta]

a personality disorder in which someone has too much admiration for himself or herself and too much concern with his or her own importance