You cannot personally diagnose without evaluating. But you can generally tell if someone is suffering from cluster B disorders, especially of the narcissistic type. I am not here to diagnose or treat. I am here to better try to understand how one moves into violence in an effort to try to prevent further victims. There is a group of us who under the radar are trying to come up with a new system of dealing with individuals displaying many red flags of people who will go on to commit horribly violent acts. Right now our system is broken. And moms and children are being killed because until the perp commits an act there is nothing that can really be done besides pushing some paper "restraining orders" which do not work. Most of my work is done with individuals who have not become violent (yet). Thankfully, many of my cases will not go on to commit violence. I just took on a case of a male who is charged with several violent crimes, none of which involved family members so in our broken system he is not deemed a danger to his young child or ex-wife. We are still in the very early evaluating stage. If anything I learn from following cases here can help me even in a small way with cases in real life I do not think that is a bad thing. It is not unusual for professionals to reach out to each other to help understand certain cases. We throw out diagnoses without meeting the patient/client. We brain storm really complex cases. I have guardian ad litems reach out to me because of my expertise in childhood trauma and family systems to help them with their recommendations. I have not met any of the players involved in their cases but they are able to share collateral information with me and I am able to give a professional opinion. Kind of like how there are expert witnesses in cases. This is just on a much more casual level.