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When you’re actually confronted with death it is a whole new game. You can’t just imagine what you would do. That’s probably why the requirement is so harsh. In a training situation, you know you can always get out, but in a real life-or-death situation there is no out. You have to fight through the cold and the danger. A lot of us would probably fold up and weep, but there are those who become even more energized when faced with such situations.

This is correlated definitely to a high degree of self-control, and narcissistic people aren’t really famous for that.

  • 254 Susan Walsh January 24, 2012 at 4:30 pm
This comment from mgambale got lost in the shuffle last night, so I want to reintroduce it:

Speaking of the problems with the DSM definition, perhaps you might be interested in the following. It completely changed my thinking about narcissism:

http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2010/11/a_generational_pathology.html

What are your thoughts on this, Susan?

It’s a very interesting post. I didn’t fully get it until I read this one:

The Other Ego Epidemic

which was inspired by an article in the Daily Mail about female narcissists a la Sex and the City:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1213212/The-ego-epidemic-more-inflated-sense-fabulousness.html

From mgambale’s link:

The narcissist feels unhappy because he thinks his life isn’t as it should be, or things are going wrong; but all of those feelings find origin in frustration, a specific frustration: the inability to love the other person.

He’s a man in a glass box, unable to connect. He thinks the problem is people don’t like him, or not enough, so he exerts massive energy into the creation and maintenance of an identity: if they think of me as X…