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by ggturner on 21 July 2011 - 12:07
NPD (Narcissistic Personality Disorder) is increasing in our society: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/life/main/7642210.html.
For more information on NPD, look at the web sites below.
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/narcissistic-personality-disorder/DS00652
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001930/
http://my.clevelandclinic.org/disorders/personality_disorders/hic_narcissistic_personality_disorder.aspx
For more information on NPD, look at the web sites below.
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/narcissistic-personality-disorder/DS00652
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001930/
http://my.clevelandclinic.org/disorders/personality_disorders/hic_narcissistic_personality_disorder.aspx
by Slamdunc on 21 July 2011 - 14:07
From the Cleveland clinic link above:
What are the symptoms of narcissistic personality disorder?
In many cases, people with narcissistic personality disorder:
- Are self-centered and boastful
- Seek constant attention and admiration
- Consider themselves better than others
- Exaggerate their talents and achievements
- Believe that they are entitled to special treatment
- Are easily hurt but might not show it
- Might take advantage of others to achieve their goals
Other common traits of narcissistic personality disorder include the following:
- Preoccupation with fantasies that focus on unlimited success, power, intelligence, beauty, or love
- Belief that he or she is “special” and unique, and can only be understood by other special people
- Expectation that others will automatically go along with what he or she wants
- Inability to recognize or identify with the feelings, needs, and viewpoints of others
- Envy of others or a belief that others are envious of him or her
- Hypersensitivity to insults (real or imagined), criticism, or defeat, possibly reacting with rage, shame, and humiliation
- Arrogant behavior and/or attitude
by MAINLYMAX on 21 July 2011 - 15:07
You don't have to be the chief officer of a world bank to be narcistic.
I have said this many times.....All you need is the picking on others
to who are less forturnate to impower your self. This was a past time here.
So just look in the mirror, it's not some body else.
I have said this many times.....All you need is the picking on others
to who are less forturnate to impower your self. This was a past time here.
So just look in the mirror, it's not some body else.
by Slamdunc on 21 July 2011 - 15:07
Hi Max,
Funny you popped in.
Funny you popped in.
by Sock Puppet on 21 July 2011 - 16:07
Max,
Who are these less fortunates you mention?
Who are these less fortunates you mention?
by Slamdunc on 21 July 2011 - 17:07
You might be a narcissist if:
You refer to yourself in the third person.......
You refer to yourself in the third person.......
by 4pack on 21 July 2011 - 17:07
ROTFLMAO
by Myracle on 21 July 2011 - 18:07
Oh, Personality Disorders are a huge interest of mine [I'm studying to go into the mental health field], especially as advances in neuropsychology are finally giving us some answers as to how the disorders develop.
Personality Disorders in general are on the rise in this country.
The two most commonly diagnosed PDs are Narcissistic Personality Disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder [also know as Emotionally Unstable Personaity Disorder, outside the United States].
Both disorders are more commonly diagnosed in women [with Antisocial Personality Disorder and Paranoid Personality Disorder being more diagnosed in men]. While a Personality Disorder cannot be diagnosed prior to adulthood, the pattern of behavior and dysfunction is usually apparent in adolescence. The most prevailing theory at the moment is that early childhood experiences prevent the development of normal neurological pathways in the brain. Trauma, neglect, emotionally invalidating environments or persistent family dysfunction are the common culprits, as these experiences have profound impacts on the still-developing neurology of young children.
It has been proposed that the two-parent work force, which often demands that parents return to employment shortly after giving birth, is one contributing factor to the increase in the disorders. This early forced abandonment of children impairs the normal neurological development of the infant.
Critical neurological pathways are formed in the first six months of an infant's life. Those pathways, which are formed in the frontal lobe during periods of being held by the primary caregiver [particularly during emotional distress, such as when the infant cries], are responsible for regulating emotion, and establish the future foundation for the development of empathy, the ego [sense of self], impulse control and the ability to delay satisfaction.
Mirror neurons in the brain are activated when the primary caregiver holds the child. A distressed infant's mirror neurons begin to "mirror" [hence the name] the emotional state of the caregiver as the child is held. If the child is not held [or held infrequently], the neurons are simply never activated.
A parent who is frequently angry, anxious, resentful or jealous of the child, or otherwise responds to the child's needs with emotions other than empathy and kindness, will activate those neurons in the child's brain.
The proposed revision to the DSM will remove individual Personality Disorders, and instead diagnose a person as having a Personality Disorder, and list the traits [narcissistic, borderline, hystrionic, antisocial, etc.]
Personality Disorders in general are on the rise in this country.
The two most commonly diagnosed PDs are Narcissistic Personality Disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder [also know as Emotionally Unstable Personaity Disorder, outside the United States].
Both disorders are more commonly diagnosed in women [with Antisocial Personality Disorder and Paranoid Personality Disorder being more diagnosed in men]. While a Personality Disorder cannot be diagnosed prior to adulthood, the pattern of behavior and dysfunction is usually apparent in adolescence. The most prevailing theory at the moment is that early childhood experiences prevent the development of normal neurological pathways in the brain. Trauma, neglect, emotionally invalidating environments or persistent family dysfunction are the common culprits, as these experiences have profound impacts on the still-developing neurology of young children.
It has been proposed that the two-parent work force, which often demands that parents return to employment shortly after giving birth, is one contributing factor to the increase in the disorders. This early forced abandonment of children impairs the normal neurological development of the infant.
Critical neurological pathways are formed in the first six months of an infant's life. Those pathways, which are formed in the frontal lobe during periods of being held by the primary caregiver [particularly during emotional distress, such as when the infant cries], are responsible for regulating emotion, and establish the future foundation for the development of empathy, the ego [sense of self], impulse control and the ability to delay satisfaction.
Mirror neurons in the brain are activated when the primary caregiver holds the child. A distressed infant's mirror neurons begin to "mirror" [hence the name] the emotional state of the caregiver as the child is held. If the child is not held [or held infrequently], the neurons are simply never activated.
A parent who is frequently angry, anxious, resentful or jealous of the child, or otherwise responds to the child's needs with emotions other than empathy and kindness, will activate those neurons in the child's brain.
The proposed revision to the DSM will remove individual Personality Disorders, and instead diagnose a person as having a Personality Disorder, and list the traits [narcissistic, borderline, hystrionic, antisocial, etc.]
by Ruger1 on 21 July 2011 - 19:07
I love this topic...: )
Mudwick...I am also very interested in mental health disorders...When I did my Psych. rotation in nursing school I really enjoyed it....: ) However, I am not cut out to be a Psych. nurse...It takes a special person to deal with certain disorders...
Waves to Jim and SP......: )
by Preston on 21 July 2011 - 19:07
Armchair diagnoses and contemplation of etiology from those uneducated and unqualified in such matters is mere speculation and often pop psychology. It carries no weight and is often wrong. Pet scans were at first claimed to be 100% diagnostic and explanatory, but as so many new claims their use has been far less effective for diagnoses than first claimed or hoped. The same for insulin shock, ect, labotomy, leucotomy and other "psych-surgeries". Huge claims were initially amde but most of these treatments have fallen to the wayside and have been considered unethical and barbaric. Freudian classical Psychoanalysis has been largely discounted and now only practiced by a few practitioners. Neurolinguistic programming was first promoted as the new treatment of the future and was claimed to provide "practice magic". Some of the methods used have been extracted such as mirroring, but these were aleady popular long before NLP by skilled psychotherapists, psychiatrists and psychologists.
The best evidence right now is that personality type is probably genetic (actuall epigenetic) and based on a grouping of recessives wit some having incomplete penetrance. This gets into Piaget's critical stages and elicitation of genetic switches controlled by the dark or junk DNA, something suppressed in the media, due to the fact that this is very big ongoing research at major medical, biological, genetic and pharmaceutical corporations that are involved in patenting these genetic switches and have confidentiality requirenments in place. Some of this research is being done under Govt and military contracts. This whole new science is called epigenetics and is kept quiet for protect the research from others who would take it without payment.
Now this new research is important for the world of GSD breeding, because it means that some of the old breed wardens in Germany in the early 1900's that rejected the complete dominance of mendelian genetics and believed that the environment of the mother and the puppies could not only affect development, but could affect offspring's actual behavior in subsequent generations, were partly correct. And there are current studies which suggest that mothers that become obese before birth can affect their offspring's gene expression for up to three generations. It is now pretty generally recognized that simple mendelian genetics as a theory is disproven and that the so-called 80% junk or dark DNA was NOT a dead byproduct of evolution, but an active and importance center for gene switching in response to environment input and stressors. By the way, most politicians and super-elites just happen to be narcissists and many are sociopaths or "anti-social personality disorder". It is generally believed by informed, credentialed researchers that breakdown of the nuclear family and single parent homes produce more personality disorders. A fair number of police officers and others in authority who start out near normal drift into the sociopathic type and develop chemical dependency due to their prescribed role and ther stresses brought to bear on them and lack of effective correction applied initially as the problem develops. And some just can't handle power, it goes to their head over time.
The best evidence right now is that personality type is probably genetic (actuall epigenetic) and based on a grouping of recessives wit some having incomplete penetrance. This gets into Piaget's critical stages and elicitation of genetic switches controlled by the dark or junk DNA, something suppressed in the media, due to the fact that this is very big ongoing research at major medical, biological, genetic and pharmaceutical corporations that are involved in patenting these genetic switches and have confidentiality requirenments in place. Some of this research is being done under Govt and military contracts. This whole new science is called epigenetics and is kept quiet for protect the research from others who would take it without payment.
Now this new research is important for the world of GSD breeding, because it means that some of the old breed wardens in Germany in the early 1900's that rejected the complete dominance of mendelian genetics and believed that the environment of the mother and the puppies could not only affect development, but could affect offspring's actual behavior in subsequent generations, were partly correct. And there are current studies which suggest that mothers that become obese before birth can affect their offspring's gene expression for up to three generations. It is now pretty generally recognized that simple mendelian genetics as a theory is disproven and that the so-called 80% junk or dark DNA was NOT a dead byproduct of evolution, but an active and importance center for gene switching in response to environment input and stressors. By the way, most politicians and super-elites just happen to be narcissists and many are sociopaths or "anti-social personality disorder". It is generally believed by informed, credentialed researchers that breakdown of the nuclear family and single parent homes produce more personality disorders. A fair number of police officers and others in authority who start out near normal drift into the sociopathic type and develop chemical dependency due to their prescribed role and ther stresses brought to bear on them and lack of effective correction applied initially as the problem develops. And some just can't handle power, it goes to their head over time.
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