Intro to narcissism and narcissists If you are having personal or professional problems that make you stay up late, have circular thoughts about your struggles, and how the situation does not make any sense, you may be a victim of a narcissist without knowing it! Everyone should be able to identify a narcissist and know how to deal with them. Once you run into one, no matter what your education is, no matter how hard you work, and no matter how hard you try to resolve the issues using traditional approaches (being nice, reasonable, forgiving, rational...), your life can turn into misery. For many people, narcissistic abuse leaves a life-long emotional scar. The closest description of a narcissist that I can come up with is like the one from the Terminator I movie: "It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear! And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead!" , except replace "are dead" wit...