Both Quiet Borderline Personality Disorder (qBPD) and covert narcissism share underlying emotional instability and difficulties in maintaining stable relationships. Both individuals often struggle with feelings of insecurity and may resort to manipulative behaviors. Additionally, they may both engage in masking behaviors to conceal their vulnerabilities, though through different means. However, key differences emerge in their expression of narcissistic traits, focus of concern, self-image, interpersonal patterns, and response to criticism. While covert narcissists subtly exhibit traits like superiority and a need for admiration, qBPD individuals typically lack overt narcissism, focusing instead on emotional dysregulation and fear of abandonment. Furthermore, qBPD individuals grapple with fluctuating self-images and intense, unstable relationships, while covert narcissists may maintain a more stable self-image and superficial connections to garner admiration. Critically, qBPD individuals tend to react emotionally to criticism, whereas covert narcissists respond defensively to protect their fragile self-esteem.

Daniel J. Fox, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist in Texas, international speaker, and a multi-award-winning author. He has been specializing in the treatment and assessment of individuals with personality disorders for over 20 years in the state and federal prison system, universities, and in private practice. His specialty areas include personality disorders, ethics, burnout prevention, and emotional intelligence.

He has published several articles and books in these areas and is the author of:

The BPD Card Deck: 50 Ways to Balance Emotions and Live Well with Borderline Personality Disorder. Available at: www.shorturl.at/jBHJV

Complex Borderline Personality Disorder: How Coexisting Conditions Affect Your BPD and How You Can Gain Emotional Balance. Available at:
https://rb.gy/hdyqyy

Antisocial, Narcissistic, and Borderline Personality Disorders: A New Conceptualization of Development, Reinforcement, Expression, and Treatment. Available at: https://tinyurl.com/2anv8dww

The Borderline Personality Disorder Workbook: An Integrative Program to Understand and Manage Your BPD. Available at: https://goo.gl/LQEgy1

Antisocial, Borderline, Narcissistic and Histrionic Workbook: Treatment Strategies for Cluster B Personality Disorders (IPBA Benjamin Franklin Gold Award Winner): https://goo.gl/BLRkFy

Narcissistic Personality Disorder Toolbox: 55 Practical Treatment Techniques for Clients, Their Parents & Their Children (IPBA Benjamin Franklin Silver Award Winner):: https://goo.gl/sZYhym

Dr. Fox has given numerous workshops and seminars on ethics and personality disorders, personality disorders and crime, treatment solutions for treating clients along the antisocial, borderline, narcissistic, and histrionic personality spectrum, emotional intelligence, managing mental health within the prison system, and others. Dr. Fox maintains a website of various treatment interventions focused on working with and attenuating the symptomatology related to individuals along the antisocial, borderline, narcissistic, and histrionic personality spectrum (www.drdfox.com).

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00:00 Introduction
00:34 Emotional instability
02:55 Interpersonal challenges
04:05 Sense of insecurity
04:56 Narcissistic ego
07:32 Potential for manipulation
09:13 Overt and covert narcissism
12:13 Masking behaviors
14:27 Expression of narcissistic traits
15:44 Focus of Concern
16:44 Self-image
19:31 Interpersonal patterns
20:59 Response to criticism
22:58 What’s a narcissistic wound?