I have a very close friend who is a narcissist.How to deal with him or cure him?

We both met in college and became great friends.We even live together and I always found his behavior strange but realized it more after we started living together.While surfing the net I realized he was actually a narcissist.Now since he is a close friend I want to know how I should handle him and cure him if possible.I have a very close friend who is a narcissist.How to deal with him or cure him?
This is how he is. You are not going to change him. I think it would be a hard relationship to maintain because your interests are not important what so ever.I have a very close friend who is a narcissist.How to deal with him or cure him?
you can cure him! but its up to him to decide if he wants to. i was a narcissist i didnt know i was, i felt insecure about myself and couldnt build good relationships with people because of my self obsorbness until i found out i was and broke the habbit.its just a bad habbit that they develop

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and stick to it because they dont know or they think its right thats one reason they become self obsorbed. Know if he knows he is a narcissist and do reaserch on they symptoms and recognize them there easy, so he knows when to stop them and stop his self obsorbness. also it helps alot if he has

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support and help from a friend (you). Good luck.

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Accept him as he is and try to keep a healthy distance to him. You can't change him, you must be careful so you don't loose your self in this relationship! People like him tends to drag all energy from you and you start to feel bad.
Well you can't cure him b/c its a characterological flaw, you pretty much just have to be aware of it and accept it. There is usually a reason why a person becomes narcissistic , upbringing etc. but if its works for them then they aren't likely to get help.
Leave him be. Someone who is actually happy with themselves is a rare thing these days.





- sincerely, fellow narcissist
Try to get him to do some volunteer work. It may be slow realizing that he is not building himself but FOR others, but he may come around.
That's a tough one. As his friend you can't really do much of anything to improve him. Narcissism is treated with therapy that involves a lot of power struggles with someone who can try to assume the role of an authority figure for him.





Pretty much the only relationship you're going to have with him is one of you showering him with praise and adoration. That or one where he's constantly demanding your loyalty and servitude while you try to resist him causing one fight after another. I'm not going to tell you to continue or not continue the friendship or anything but eventually what happens with these is that you will get sick of being bossed around and you'll break off the friendship. He'll get really pissed and you'll probably get into a fist-fight before it's finally over.