BARNEY STINSON: NARCISSISTIC

PERSONALITY DISORDER

WHAT IS NARCISSISTIC PERSONALITY DISORDER?• IT IS A MENTAL DISORDER IN WHICH THE SUFFERER HAS A

STRONG FEELING OF SELF IMPORTANCE.• FULL OF THEMSELVES• LACK OF AWARENESS FOR OTHERS

HOW IS IT CAUSED?• THERE ARE NO KNOWN DIRECT CAUSES OF THIS DISORDER• IT COULD BE A COMBINATION OF MANY THINGS SUCH AS

CHILDHOOD TRAUMA, STRESS, SPECIAL TREATMENT AS A CHILD, OVERPROTECTIVE PARENTS, OR OTHER STRANGE EVENTS

HOW IS IT TREATED?• GROUP THERAPY• IN BARNEY’S CASE, HIS FRIEND GROUP HAS INTERVENTIONS• ONE ON ONE GROUP THERAPY SESSIONS• CERTAIN MEDICATION

STATISTICS

• THERE ARE FEWER THAN 200,000 CASES IN THE UNITED STATES EACH YEAR• MOST COMMON FOR PEOPLE BETWEEN THE AGES OF 19-40• IT CAN NOT BE CURED, BUT IT CAN BE TREATED• KNOWN AS A CHRONIC DISORDER, CAN LAST FOR YEARS OR A LIFETIME

MORE STATISTICS

OTHER FAMOUS PEOPLE WITH THIS DISORDER

• SIMON COWELL• ADOLF HITLER• ELVIS PRESLEY• ALEC BALDWIN• KANYE WEST • DONALD TRUMP

ARE PEOPLE AFFLICTED WITH THIS DISORDER DANGEROUS?• THEY ARE NOT DANGEROUS• THEY WILL MOST LIKELY HAVE A SELFISH ATTITUDE• MORE LIKELY TO ANNOY YOU WITH THEIR ATTITUDE OR ACTIONS THAN

HURT YOU

CAN PEOPLE LIVE NORMALLY WITH NARCISSISTIC PERSONALITY DISORDER?• NARCISSISTIC PERSONALITY DISORDER DOES NOT AFFECT THE ABILITY

TO LIVE• HOWEVER SOME SYMPTOMS OF THIS DISORDER CAN AFFECT THE

NUMBER OF FRIENDS OR RELATIONSHIPS YOU HAVE

HOW DOES THIS DISORDER AFFECT ME, BARNEY STINSON?• I CANNOT FORM CLOSE RELATIONSHIPS WITH WOMEN• WHEN I DO GET CLOSE TO A WOMAN IT USUALLY ENDS

BADLY• MY FRIENDS TELL ME THAT I TREAT WOMEN POORLY WHICH I

DON’T FIND TRUE• APPARENTLY I’M “AFRAID OF COMMITMENT”

HOW DO MY FRIENDS INTERPRET MY ACTIONS?

• LILY SAYS THAT THE PLAYBOOK IS RIDICULOUS AND IT DOESN’T WORK. THAT IS COMPLETELY UNTRUE. THE PLAYBOOK GETS RESULTS.

• I KNOW MARSHALL AND TED SUPPORT ME 100% EVEN THOUGH THEY TELL ME I’M GROSS

• ROBIN SOMETIMES RESPECTS IN PUBLIC AND SOMETIMES SHE TELLS ME I’M HUMAN TRASH

HOW I “RUIN YOUNG GIRLS’ LIVES”• THE PLAYBOOK IS ONE OF MY SACRED TEXTS.• IT ALLOWS ME TO CLEVERLY GET A GIRL TO HOOK UP WITH ME• IT IS GENIUS• THERE ARE SO MANY PLAYS LIKE: THE LORENZO VON MATTERHORN, THE

SCUBA DIVER, THE WEEKEND AT BARNEY’S, AND MANY MORE

THE PLAYBOOK AT WORK

HOW I AFFECT MY FRIENDS’ LIVES• I MAKE THEIR LIVES A MILLION TIMES MORE AWESOME.• I TRY TO GET THEM TO SUIT UP OR PLAY LASER TAG, BUT

THEY’VE BEEN LAME FOR SO LONG • EVERY ONCE IN AWHILE I GET MARSHALL AND TED TO

ACCOMPANY ME TO THE LUSTY LEOPARD• ONE TIME TED AND I LICKED THE LIBERTY BELL• MOST OF THE TIME THESE GUYS ARE SELFISH WITH THEIR TIME

AND DON’T HANG OUT WITH ME

ADVENTURES WITH MY FRIENDS

“REASONS” I’M A NARCISSIST ACCORDING TO LILY

• I HOOK UP WITH GIRLS AND I NEVER CALL THEM AGAIN• I HAVE NO FEELINGS FOR WOMEN• I AM THE DEVIL• I HAVE A PLAYBOOK• I’M SELFISH• I DON’T GIVE TO CHARITY WHICH IS THE MOST UNTRUE SOMETIMES I

HOOKUP WITH A 4 OR 5 JUST TO THROW THEM A BONE

FUN TIMES

WHY I’M AMAZING• I KNOW MAGIC (I WENT TO THE MAGICIANS INSTITUTE OF TEANICK AND

GOT A PERFECT SCORE ON THE ADVANCED CARD TRICKS).• I’M RICH• I WEAR SUITS• I ALWAYS SMELL AMAZING• I KNOW LILY MIGHT SAY THIS BACKS UP HER HYPOTHESIS OF ME BEING A

NARCISSIST, BUT I DON’T CARE. I’M LEGEND-WAIT FOR IT-DARY.

HOW THE GIRLS I HOOKUP WITH THINK OF ME• I DON’T REALLY REMEMBER ANY OF THEY’RE NAMES, BUT WHO CARES• I TOLD ONE GIRL THAT I WAS ACTUALLY TED MOSBY AND THEN I SLEPT

WITH HER AND THEN I LEFT AND SHE GOT MAD A MADE THE WEBSITE WWW.TEDMOSBYISAJERK.COM

• I WENT CAMPING WITH ONE GIRL AND I SNUCK OUT OF THE TENT AND STOLE HER TRUCK AND LEFT HER THERE. WHEN I SAW HER AGAIN I ACCIDENTALLY BROKE HER AND HER FIANCÉ UP. SHE WAS NOT A HAPPY CAMPER

• I LEFT ONE CRAZY GIRL IN AN APARTMENT I DIDN’T OWN AND SHE GOT ARRESTED. WHEN I SAW HER AGAIN SHE SAID SHE STILL LOVED ME AND IT WAS ALL HER FAULT

PART OF SCRAPBOOK OF GIRLS I’VE SLEPT WITH (I’VE SLEPT WITH LIKE 300 WOMEN)

CONCLUSION

• PEOPLE MAY NOT LIKE ME BECAUSE OF THE SYMPTOMS OF THIS DISORDER, BUT I DON’T CARE

• I THINK THIS DISORDER IS WHAT MAKES ME AWESOME• I COULDN’T IMAGINE MY LIFE BEING AS BORING AS MARSHALL AND LILY’S

OR TED’S• I’M PROUD OF MY DISORDER EVEN THOUGH ABOUT ALL OF THE WOMEN

OF NEW YORK CITY HATE ME