Posted by cybercafe on September 1, 2002, at 2:13:35
In reply to Re: personality disorders » cybercafe, posted by ~~tabitha~~ on August 31, 2002, at 3:55:08
> Oh yeah? Were your parents narcissists? My father was I think, though I have very limited memory of him. My mother did the whole living in
when i wanted to get my father more help.... i remembered once hearing the term "intermittent explosive" so i typed this into google search... and i found all of these other terms which so well fit all of him and his 7 siblings (being really loud, needing to dominate conversations, etc)
>is shadow thing, til she wised up and left him.my mother is in total denial that there are any problems .... (though my father is diagnosed bipolar type I) ...
she would like to leave, but we are too poor ...
> Confident and happy sounds good. I'm not sure what kind of accomplishments you mean though. I
see my narcissistic accomplishments as being irrelevant to true happiness or even at odds with it. For instance, being really thin was a narcissitic accomplishment for me, but it rested on feeling superior to those who didn't achieve it, and on rejecting my own hunger. True happiness would be self-acceptance and self-nurturing. Making A's in school was a narcissistic accomplishment, but it stemmed from fear of being less than perfect.hey sounds like what i went through.... like i would see some narcissistic people who were.. the best.. and decide they had it really good.. so i would become the best at whatever (marks, athletics, so fourth) and then realize there really isn't much to it... and i wasn't doing to bad before i became #1.. so maybe i wouldn't have been so bad off just relaxing and being... mediocre ... complacent and happy
but it's kind of confusing.. because technically i'm bipolar type II ... and i know narcissism can be treated with mood stabilizers.. and supposedly narcissists experience frequent mood swings... so i am waiting for medication to make me stable and then, once i have the capability, to adjust my thinking ....> Ha ha, I don't think you'd want to get into that kind of thing. Yes she'd buy into your grandeur, but it wouldn't matter much since you'd have no respect for her. She'd just be a flattering mirror for you and you'd still be alone.
i guess with women i'm still as narcissistic as ever .... i think because i am nothing but a no good insane dude i need to showcase my physical and mental prowess to prove my worth ...
i thought this would was... a natural reaction
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