I am a recovering narcissist. I thought narcissism was about self-love till someone told me there is a flip side to it. It is actually drearier than self-love; it is unrequited self-love.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
To me, self-esteem is not self-love. It is self-acknowledgment, as in recognizing and accepting who you are.
Self-love seems so often unrequited.
Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting all of yourself.
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
Narcissism is the part of my personality that I am the least proud of, and I certainly don't like to see it highlighted in everybody else I meet.
I don't think anyone's ever accused me of too much self-love.
Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less.
Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.
Self-love then does not constitute THIS or THAT to be our interest or good; but, our interest or good being constituted by nature and supposed, self-love only puts us upon obtaining and securing it.
I don't think I am narcissistic. I think I have low self-esteem.