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From: Freeing Yourself From the Narcissist in Your life by Linda Martinez-Lewi, Ph.D. "A high level narcissist is a supreme actor who fakes emotion brilliantly. He fools most people. Each move is carefully studied and choreographed to elicit positive reactions from others...The narcissist is false at all times. He is practiced, a person playing a part, the central figure in his own drama."

The high level narcissist is often quite successful in the world and appears to those who observe him/her to have a social base that looks up to this individual as bright, savvy, talented and sophisticated. 

The high level narcissists creates a series of masks and personas, manifestations of his false self. 

Long ago in early childhood the false self of the narcissist was substituted for the real damaged self. This child was never recognized or identified for his true self. The real self is severely damaged, fortified by impenetrable defense mechanisms: Projection, Massive denial, Splitting, Repression.

Despite their power and reach in professional and social lives and the acquisition of wealth, social status and their circles of influence, the real self of the high level narcissist is psychologically damaged, filled with a bleak emptiness.

Learn to recognize the high level narcissist. If you are married to a high level narcissist, acknowledge who this individually truly is and how you have been narcissistically abused. Seriously consider freeing yourself from this non-marriage.

As the adult child of a high level narcissist, recognize that you are a separate, unique authentic individual who deserves to recover and evolve. Practice daily self care: Sleep, Rest, Eat nourishing food. Move and exercise your way, go to Nature for restoration in the calming, healing part of the body/mind systems, the parasympathetic. Here you discover deep inner peace and the fulfillment of our true authentic self.