2. Feeling guilt or shame.
Do you feel guilt or shame when you do something that you shouldn’t have done or when you make someone else feel bad or hurt their feelings? Are you sorry? If the answer is yes, then this is a very good indication that no, you are not a narcissist.
Narcissists do not feel bad for the horrible things that they do and the terrible way that they treat people. In fact, not only do they not feel bad about it, many times, they actually enjoy it and gain narcissistic supply from it. So if you can genuinely say, when you make a mistake or you hurt someone else’s feelings, that makes you feel bad guilty, or even a little bit of shame, then no, you are not a narcissist.
3. Not jealous of other people’s successes.
Do you feel uncontrollable jealousy and envy about other people’s successes or accomplishments? Or are you able to fill genuine happiness for people in your life that have something really wonderful that happens? If the answer to the question is that yes, of course, I’m genuinely happy for the loved ones in my life when they experience or achieve something special, then chances are, you are not a narcissist.
Remember, narcissists, feel very low levels to no levels of empathy, guilt, shame, compassion, remorse, but they feel jealousy and envy with every fiber of their being.
So for the narcissist, when someone achieves something that the narcissist wants or that puts that person into the spotlight, the narcissist might say that they are happy for the person, but underneath they are not happy for this person in the least. They are jealous, they are envious, and they resent the fact that this person has whatever it is that the narcissist doesn’t.
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