Help with a term from psychology.

[Edwardo Piet]

Narcissist?

They're impressed with themselves, aren't they? This type has a negative image of themselves.

Hisitronic Personality Disorder?

Oh and to be clear, deep down narcissists don't really love themselves... they hide their self-loathing with a false self of thinking they're brilliant but behind that their true self loathes their fakeness.

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They're impressed with themselves, aren't they? This type has a negative image of themselves.

One could argue that a narcissist ultimately has a negative self-image (hence the insistence upon validation), but you have a point: that they only want positive attention (and in fact, they insist on it). I'm stumped.

No, Narcissists prefer positive attention but they'll take negative attention over no attention.