Playing Hard To Get With Women
Comforting Marriage Statistics
The 10 Biggest Dating Mistakes Women Make
Phenomenal Woman, That’s You
When You’ve Hooked Up With a Close Friend
HUS Survey: Key Findings
Overcoming Social Anxiety in Dating
What Mixed Messages Really Mean
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.
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…
Comforting Marriage Statistics
The 10 Biggest Dating Mistakes Women Make
Phenomenal Woman, That’s You
When You’ve Hooked Up With a Close Friend
HUS Survey: Key Findings
Overcoming Social Anxiety in Dating
What Mixed Messages Really Mean
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
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…