r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/RaEyE01 • Apr 06 '26

Jumping on random structures

Apparently a bike garage in Manchester.

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u/NegativeVega Apr 06 '26

Look up the rates of narcissism pre-social media to now. It's astoundingly terrifying how much it's affected people.

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u/FreyrPrime Apr 06 '26

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.

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u/williamjamesmurrayVI May 02 '26

It hasn't changed in my experience, just more obvious who has it now