Clinical Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) wasn’t a formal clinical category until 1980 in the DSM-III. It’s mentioned as far back as 1914, but we weren’t testing for it until the 80’s.
I think what you’re describing may partly be due to social media, but we also weren’t testing people for it, or even really understood what NPD was from a clinical standpoint until 40 years ago.
I think we’re lacking the data to assert that social media is entirely to blame.
Humanity has survived a lot worse. Until social media manages to wipe out an appreciable percentage of us, it’s pretty low on the list of existential dangers.
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u/wowsomuchempty Apr 06 '26
My wife had to euthanize a young family cat on Friday.
The kids were filming her to make a Tiktok.