Narcissistic Personality Disorder
As I was clicking links, I came across this definition. Does anyone think it describes anyone we know that may have just been elected to the highest office in the country? This information came from BehaveNet® Clinical Capsules™ (my cautionary statement: This is all in fun as I have absolutely no qualifications, except my own opinions if I think someone is a few rounds shy of a full magazine, to diagnose mental conditions.)
Individuals with this Cluster B Personality Disorder have an excessive sense of how important they are. They demand and expect to be admired and praised by others and are limited in their capacity to appreciate others' perspectives.
Diagnostic criteria for 301.81 Narcissistic Personality Disorder
(cautionary statement)
A pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by five (or more) of the following:
(1) has a grandiose sense of self-importance (e.g., exaggerates achievements and talents, expects to be recognized as superior without commensurate achievements)
(2) is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love
(3) believes that he or she is "special" and unique and can only be understood by, or should associate with, other special or high-status people (or institutions)
(4) requires excessive admiration
(5) has a sense of entitlement, i.e., unreasonable expectations of especially favorable treatment or automatic compliance with his or her expectations
(6) is interpersonally exploitative, i.e., takes advantage of others to achieve his or her own ends
(7) lacks empathy: is unwilling to recognize or identify with the feelings and needs of others
(8) is often envious of others or believes that others are envious of him or her
(9) shows arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes
Reprinted with permission from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth Edition. Copyright 1994 American Psychiatric Association
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I think it sums it up the majority of the high society what do you think?
techno.
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I forgot, it also describers most of the politicians whom has the God like syndrome!
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I think to run for any political office or even high corporate management, you would by necessity have to have some of these traits. Some professions such as surgeons would also have to have a few of these traits also. But all of them? I mean, ~damn~!
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Yes true but, one should not be consume by it by that trait!
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Yes true but,one should not be consume by that trait!
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i wonder if running a shitty 3rd rate partisan blog qualifies a person?
idk. u tell me. u must be a qualified mental health professional, right? otherwise, what the fuck r u talking about?
ugggg. i'm just sorry i wasted a small portion of my life wading through this sleazy blog.
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I would suggest taking those extra few minutes you might spend on a blog site and review your classes on spelling. Hell, even using the spell check which is located on a handy little bubble by the comment box would have worked.
As far as the mental health aspect, if you had read the article as opposed to the headline, you might have seen the clinical signs were written by the American Psychiatric Association not me.
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