The DSM basically took all those “traits we think of as evil” and said “we shall make some disorder categories”. People with NPD don’t go and get help, they just run around ruining other peoples lives.
If you’ve never had such a person in your life, good for you! The rest of us don’t care if they can be saved, we just don’t ever want to interact with another one. Ever.
> People with NPD don’t go and get help, they just run around ruining other peoples lives.
This is objectively false. There's lots of people in therapy for NPD. And there have been case studies with people who recovered.
Which brings another point
> The DSM basically took all those “traits we think of as evil” and said “we shall make some disorder categories”.
DSM criteria for narcissism are part of the problem. You can have the exact same mental struggle but stop yourself from hurting people (at least to a reasonable degree - "normal" people also hurt others sometimes after all). And you won't be diagnosed as NPD. But you'll still have all the other problems - lack of human connection, vastly higher chance of suicide, autoimmune diseases, relationship problems, etc.
Which is like saying you only have alcoholism if you beat people on the streets. If you define it that way - of course all alcoholics are violent.
But it's not a productive way to define mental health problems. It leaves out people who struggle with it but don't cause harm.
> The rest of us don’t care if they can be saved, we just don’t ever want to interact with another one. Ever.
That's unlikely given that estimated 0.5-5% of the general population have NPD and about 20% have strong narcissistic traits.
In IT it's probably much higher by the way, it's the perfect job (little human contact, high status, well paid).
in that case, you don't care if you drug cost 10€ or 2000€ because you aren't spending a single € from your own wallet, at least if you don't factor in taxes.
Contrary to the USA where it's a much more responsible market, people do pay for the medications or they get it paid by their own insurance but it cost them directly a lot of money.
I would think that americans would be much more vigilant about what medication they take, the price it cost, and so would have much lower pricing. That's just how free market work, and technically there are many medication manufacturer and many customer.
Is it the proof that a true unregulated free market doesn't work ? if left unsupervised, big companies are going to buy smaller companies until they are monopoly or make secret, behind the door, deal to keep price up.
It's what the USA is made on, the idea of freedom and free market. i believe the idea of unregulated market is more recent, think the 70's, but surely in the 50 years since then american would have pushed back against it and not elected people like Trump who are all in.
When you have 30 insurance companies, 10000 companies buying insurance policies and millions of individuals - you get shit prices.
That's why the drug in question is 200 USD in US (after deductions) and 20 in Europe (including taxes).