When guys here think of alpha males they usually think of the chads of the world, the guys that are assholes to almost everybody and don’t give a shit about offending anybody.

But this is an issue because most chads are actually guys with npd, narcissist personality disorder, and this is not what you should be aspiring to.

Well you may be thinking, well if all chads are narcissists, shouldn’t I just become one also ? Because it seems to work.

I want to give my psychology degree opinion on what a real alpha should be, because it is extremely hard to tell wether some dude is a narcissist or a true alpha male.

It all comes down to one factor as to wether you are a narcissist or not..... INSECURITY.

If you came to this sub to become an alpha male and you never fixed your underlying insecurities, then you will automatically become a narcissist because your ego doesn’t want to have insecurities, but you never took the time to get rid of them.

Npd (narcissists) as a disorder happens solely because of insecurities. The narcissist in training realizes he has an insecurity he can’t fix and feels inadequate because of it, so he decides to change himself to seem very un-insecure, but at his core he is fragile as fuck.

So instead of doing that, a true alpha isn’t insecure about anything. So fix your insecurities so you don’t end up mentally ill.

I’d like some second opinions on this topic. Has anyone experienced both ? When did you finally decide to face your insecurities head-on instead of covering them up?