My abusive cousin

My male cousin, 20 yo and only son of my mother's sister, is goddamn abusive and egotistical - he always makes everything revolve around him, and WILL start arguing over topics he dislikes.

His parents went through a very messy divorce when he was a kid, due to his father being a complete douchebag, leaving his mother with very little; they even had to move out of their old home and start living with my elderly maternal grandparents, my aunt had so little cash. Despite this, she still used what money she could get sending my cousin to a private school, instead of sending him to a public one and getting a unit for themselves; she catered to her son in every way she could and he wanted - it didn't help that the father still got to see my cousin every now and then. Yet the bugger claims my aunt "isn't a good mother", which she goddamn agrees with.

Apparently my cousin once started bashing his mother in my house when he was younger (I myself don't know how old he was), which caused my mother to kick him out - and he still hasn't forgiven her for that. He blocked his mother when she went overseas, when she just wanted to have some method of contacting her only son. My grandparents, who are likely in the final years of their lives, want my cousin out of their house - he's been living there for, what, seven years now and he is now an adult, yet he doesn't want to leave - because he's such an argumentative, insulting piece of trash; heck, my grandpa, who is kind and funny and quiet now, begged my mum to help kick him out.

Just this Friday, we were celebrating my grandpa's, along with another cousin's (my mother's brother's second daughter, youngest of his three), birthday, and this aforementioned male cousin ruined the mood by starting an argument, again, this time aimed at my uncle's son; said son wanted to leave due to how venomous our cousin is, and only got persuaded to stay to celebrate his grandpa's and sister's birthdays due to my brother.

My cousin does apparently go to see a psychologist or something, but it doesn't seem like he wants to change; he wants to continue being an utter prick to the entire family, it seems. He wanted to come and have dinner at our house tonight, so my mum drove over to pick him up, and he made and ate dinner using our food, yet the moment mum touched upon a topic he didn't like, he blew up at her, igniting an argument with his mother, my brother, and our grandma; his girlfriend, who seems to be a nice enough girl, wasn't part of this, and was reading her phone in an adjacent room - I'm not the best at reading moods, or reading women, but I don't think she was happy to hear all this. My mum soon left and came up to my room to get away from his toxicity, and wanted him to leave.

...I just had to vent, to let this out. Not even sure I should be writing this here, but...sigh, we've all had more than enough of this self-entitled, egotistical, abusive brat.

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There is usually more behind such behavior.
However, I can't judge this having not heard both sides.
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I've had my share of selfish, arrogant and abusive persons in my life and therefore chose to stay away from people as good as possible -- especially so-called relatives.

On the pro side: You don't seem to have problem with the rest of your relatives/family, so that is a good thing. Be happy to have them.
he always makes everything revolve around him
So would it be a good idea to ignore him? To show him his behavior isn't gonna make him center of attention?
There is no magic solution for this.
 
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You're right, a (normal) psychologist won't do anything. From the sounds of it, he's defensive to protect the part of himself that hurts the most. That's the mentality. For things in him to change, his environment needs to change. The people who take care of him need to make changes too and that's very unlikely without the right kind of help. It sounds like there is some help happening, but it isn't the right kind.

A very angry narcissist. People like this often end up in prison. Not because they don't know right from wrong either. You can be a narcissist and a good person, but you need to learn to accept you're a piece of shit sometimes. You can't be blissfully ignorant the whole time because eventually people stop treating children like children. When you're an adult, you get tried like an adult. Once you can accept this, then you can regulate yourself and condition yourself to improve.

Protect yourself first. Protect people you love and care about after that. That's the best you can do. Read up or watch YouTube videos on dealing with narcissists. It might help. I don't know you but take care.
 

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