03-24-2016, 08:10 PM
(03-20-2016, 04:30 PM)Donovan Wrote: Some of it, yes. But he also exhibits every sign of narcissistic personality disorder, and those people tend to fully believe their own outrageous bullshit or are totally incapable of thinking others won't fall for it.
Ben Michaelis, clinical psychologist Wrote:Textbook narcissistic personality disorder. He’s so classic that I’m archiving video clips of him to use in workshops because there’s no better example of his characteristics...In the field we use clusters of personality disorders. Narcissism is in cluster B, which means it has similarities with histrionic personality disorder, borderline personality disorder, and antisocial personality disorder. There are similarities between them. Regardless of how you feel about John McCain, the man served—and suffered. Narcissism is an extreme defense against one’s own feelings of worthlessness. To degrade people is really part of a cluster-B personality disorder: it’s antisocial and shows a lack of remorse for other people. The way to make it O.K. to attack someone verbally, psychologically, or physically is to lower them. That’s what he’s doing.
fucking nailed it.
Thank god I am oblivious to the opinions of others while caught in the blinding splendor of my own cleverness.