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“He is always correct,” Matthew, 25, says. “We must always do things his way. Even my mum is unable to express an opinion. I’ve had my fill.”
When I first met Matthew’s father, he said, “You will see straight away that my son and my wife have problems.”
I was the best psychologist and coach at the time. However, when I suggested that he might be part of a problematic dynamic, and when I confronted him and asked him how he could do better, he immediately dismissed me as incompetent.
Without a doubt, I was dealing with a true narcissist. A narcissist spends most of his time in a dream world. His actions are spectacular. He needs to be admired and is not always well-loved.
The god complex is another term for narcissism. As a joke, I frequently tell my audience that someone has a god complex when he wakes up and says, “OK God, you can go back and rest, I am awake now.”
A god complex is a firm belief marked by continually exaggerated emotions of personal ability, privilege, or infallibility. Even in the face of complex or obvious challenges or impossible tasks, such a person will usually refuse to recognize, and may even reject, the probability of their error or failure. Most of the time, people consider their personal beliefs to be indisputably accurate, dismissing even the best counsel. Also, you must try to play this God complex test.
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Narcissism is a mental health disease, and narcissists can be found almost anywhere (they account for around 1% of the population). One percent may not seem like much, but for higher-ups in hierarchies (CEOs, professional leaders, and bosses), the total disorder might reach up to ten percent. Even more corporate leaders exhibit symptoms of “the god syndrome.” Much negative company performance is likely to be explained by the condition (bad decisions, turnover, burnout, and bankruptcy). Many authors have examined the failure of large corporations through the lens of narcissism.
A god complex is defined as someone who is so self-assured that they exaggerate themselves, their skills, and their entitlement. The biggest indicator, according to licensed clinical social worker De-Andrea Blaylock-Johnson, LCSW, is an inflated sense of self.
She observes that having an inflated sense of self transfers into a variety of other qualities, namely feeling better than everyone else. “They believe they are the brightest person in the room, that they know the most, and that their reality is the reality—that their experience is the experience,” she explains.
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Finally, these individuals tend to take arrogance to its logical conclusion, feeling that they can do anything they want with little to no concern for others—and that they are right in doing so. “It’s called a ‘god complex’ because it’s this belief that ‘I am the end-all-be-all,’ and they don’t even consider how their actions affect others,” Blaylock-Johnson adds.
You’d be right if you thought god complexes sounded a lot like narcissism. They are fairly similar, but not identical. “Often, when people express a god complex, they are referring to someone who may have features of narcissistic personality disorder,” Blaylock-Johnson notes, even if they do not have an official diagnosis.
A god complex is not a diagnosable ailment (it is not listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or the DSM-5), but narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) is. Someone with NPD will almost surely show signs of a god complex, whereas someone with a god complex does not always have NPD.
However, there is a lot of overlap, notably with grandiose narcissism. Perpetua Neo, DClinPsy, a psychologist, defines this as a kind of narcissism in which “someone’s narcissistic qualities—entitlement, braggadocio, and self-obsession—are openly shown, frequently at the expense of others.” This is equivalent to having a deity complex.
However, as Blaylock-Johnson adds, “it’s good to look at the different qualities or features someone may be exhibiting to help you figure out how to handle the situation—but you don’t necessarily want to toss about diagnoses.”
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