While a narcissist can be an alcoholic, the alcoholic is not necessarily a narcissist, but rather displays narcissistic behavior to protect himself from the roadblocks in the way of satisfying one’s addiction.
Despite every best effort to try to understand , those that are not alcoholics can never understand the internal changes that we experience.
The non-alcoholic individual cannot understand that we are not necessarily narcissists. Our behavior may have been narcissistic because we had to protect our ability to deliver upon our addictions. Our minds demanded that.