Can a narcissist suffer from chronic or major depression?

Yes. Narcissists can suffer from chronic or major depression. Although I find that they don't talk about it or reveal to others that they have depression because they want to maintain an image that everything is ok, when it isn't. read more

The life of the typical narcissist is, indeed, punctuated with recurrent bouts of dysphoria (ubiquitous sadness and hopelessness), anhedonia (loss of the ability to feel pleasure), and clinical forms of depression (cyclothymic, dysthymic, or other). read more

In other words, there is no proven high correlation between suffering from NPD (or even a milder form of narcissism) – and enduring bouts of depression. Depression is a form of aggression. Transformed, this aggression is directed at the depressed person rather than at his human environment. read more