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READ MORE: The ten key signs someone in your life is a narcissist Those who have an extreme competitive streak may have been raised by parents with toxic narcissistic traits, psychologists have warned. Being a chronic people pleaser is another telltale sign that a person's parents carry the disturbing personality traits that are linked to mental illness and relationship problems. Professor Wendy Behary and Dr Craig Malkin say there are six tell-tale signs your parents may have these characteristics, and revealed, in a recent interview, how to 'break the cycle' and not copy their behaviour. Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) is a mental health condition characterised by a 'pervasive pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration and lack of empathy', according to official sources. It is estimated that up to one in 20 people in the UK may suffer with the disorder to some degree, with experts such as Prof Behary claiming it is underdiagno...

READ MORE: The ten key signs someone in your life is a narcissist Those who have an extreme competitive streak may have been raised by parents with toxic narcissistic traits, psychologists have warned. Being a chronic people pleaser is another telltale sign that a person's parents carry the disturbing personality traits that are linked to mental illness and relationship problems. Professor Wendy Behary and Dr Craig Malkin say there are six tell-tale signs your parents may have these characteristics, and revealed, in a recent interview, how to 'break the cycle' and not copy their behaviour. Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) is a mental health condition characterised by a 'pervasive pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration and lack of empathy', according to official sources. It is estimated that up to one in 20 people in the UK may suffer with the disorder to some degree, with experts such as Prof Behary claiming it is underdiagno...

READ MORE: The ten key signs someone in your life is a narcissist Those who have an extreme competitive streak may have been raised by parents with toxic narcissistic traits, psychologists have warned. Being a chronic people pleaser is another telltale sign that a person's parents carry the disturbing personality traits that are linked to mental illness and relationship problems. Professor Wendy Behary and Dr Craig Malkin say there are six tell-tale signs your parents may have these characteristics, and revealed, in a recent interview, how to 'break the cycle' and not copy their behaviour. Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) is a mental health condition characterised by a 'pervasive pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration and lack of empathy', according to official sources. It is estimated that up to one in 20 people in the UK may suffer with the disorder to some degree, with experts such as Prof Behary claiming it is underdiagno...

Since developing migraine four years ago, Hobart resident Claire Szymanski has had to stop working and regularly misses out on social events. "I'd never previously had migraine, woke up one morning with what I thought was this shocking headache and unfortunately four years on I have not had a day's break from it," Ms Szymanski said. "It's really been very up and down, there's been more hard times than anything." Ms Szymanski is one of an estimated 4.9 million Australians who live with migraine of varying frequency and severity. Another Tasmanian, David Gardiner, has experienced life-changing relief through medication but said living with the disorder had made him more accommodating of others who live with an invisible illness. Ms Szymanski said she was "in and out" of hospital when symptoms increased in intensity. She seeks temporary relief from the severe head pain and dizziness she lives wi...

READ MORE: Autism treatment parents say is reversing children's symptoms A leading psychiatrist has revealed his 'guilt' over America's spiraling autism crisis, after his team's work led to an explosion in cases — and fueled the anti-vaccine movement. In the 1980s, around one in 2,000 children had autism in the US. But by the turn of the century, this had jumped 13-fold to one in 150 children , in large part due to Dr Allen Frances and his team's updated guidelines for diagnosing autism. For the first time, doctors began recognizing Asperger's syndrome — a milder condition where patients develop in the typical way in early life but tend to have difficulty with social cues, empathy and forming relationships — as a form of autism. In 2013, building on his team's work, the definition was loosened yet again to include even milder cases, and autism was re-defined as 'autism spectrum disorder'. The result was, acco...