There is NO CURE for this mental problem, since they lie to their therapists, doctors, they can’t be helped – even if they don’t even know they are lying because they are delusional. Their brains are hardwired this way, and while they can sometimes put on a new personality and fool you, they can’t do it long term.
They don’t get better.
They don’t get help.
They don’t do anything but hide it and get worse over time.
NPD cannot be cured but can be managed with therapy and medication [IF the person will admit the problem]. The goal of treatment is to help the person with NPD learn how to recognize their own self-defeating behaviors and replace them with healthier coping skills that allow for more meaningful relationships.
Can Narcissistic Personality Disorder Be Treated? – Southern Live Oak Wellness
Narcissistic personality disorder can be treated but no cure exists for this lifelong condition.
Can Narcissism Be Cured? (psychcentral.com)
I would like to set the record straight: None of the above is true. There are effective treatments for narcissistic personality disorder. Change is difficult, but possible. Everyone has the capacity to grow and evolve and this includes people with NPD. [But this requires a specialist, not a generalist, and very few exist]
A full psychotherapy of NPD generally takes at least 5-10 years. It is a long, slow, and complex process. It proceeds in stages. Clients can stop at any point. How far they get in therapy depends on how many stages they complete and how impaired they were to begin with…
Further adding to the difficulty, most narcissists quit therapy prematurely, even when they have a good therapist. This is usually because they find self-reflection incredibly painful. It involves dropping their defenses and facing their own underlying shame and low self-esteem.
10 Stages in the Treatment of Narcissistic Disorders | Psychology Today
Is narcissism treatable? This is a topic that stirs up a lot of controversy and a question that we get asked often. As a therapist who has spent many years working with clients with narcissistic traits, my answer to this question is yes, but there is one caveat. And that is the person must be fully invested in the process. [In simple terms, they must admit they have a problem be fully truthful (does not work with delusional, like Tara) and work through the whole process]
Is Narcissism Treatable? – Marriage Recovery Center
The vast majority of information out there from the professionals is that narcopaths can’t be cured. The few self-confessed narcissists out there concur.
Very occasionally it is possible to get a narcissist to therapy. Their intent is not to go to learn, to improve, to understand – but to play out, and get validation for, their Victim Narrative. They will twist a therapist time and time again so as to ensure that they exit the sessions feeling 100% validation that they are still the victim. Of what, I hear you ask. Nothing that any normal person will be able to understand – welcome to the twisted, counter-intuitive world of the NPD.
Some hope that if they could just get their narcissists to therapy, there is hope. Achieving this is one problem – narcissists rarely agree that the problem lies with them. I would go further and suggest that acknowledging fault is tantamount to narcissistic suicide, for which their entire fake identity and false contruct would come crashing down like a house of cards. Quite simply, they will not do it.
Can a Narcissist be Cured? < Sadly there is no hope (narcopath.info)