The Genetics of Narcissism
Jan. 19th, 2006 03:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wombat1138Just jotting down another link for me to come back and read later. Either this is not my day for parsing complex sentences, or I'm not picking particularly good sentences to attempt to parse.
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on 2006-01-20 02:10 am (UTC)The other day, Girlfriend brought over an article about Borderline Personality Disorder. Reading it, one is forced to admit that one is an example of said disorder. Okay. But the piece itself seemed about as useful as an article would be that boiled down to: "If you're angry a lot, you just might be... an Angry Person (AP)!!"
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on 2006-01-20 03:34 am (UTC)As for BPD and other slightly disordered personalities, I suppose the idea would be to sort through one's own collection of Angry-Making Triggers to figure out which ones most people don't have and are happier without, and thereby institute the internal analogue of Thomas Covenant's constant self-surveillance-- "Have I just injured myself without realizing it? Am I about to injure myself without realizing it?"-- minus the "LEPER OUTCAST BESTSELLER UNCLEAN" flagellation aspect. Whether this actually works is at best uncertain.
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on 2006-01-21 07:31 am (UTC)RATIONAL QADGOP (on right shoulder): Most people wouldn't get angry about [latest thing].
SLAVERING GAMMA-IRRADIATED QADGOP (on left shoulder): Qadgop not care what puny people not get angry about! Qadgop smash!
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on 2006-01-22 02:54 pm (UTC)"Gah! What did I *really* mean when I said that? Was that a subtextual undercurrent of scornful contempt or underhanded sabotage or what????"
"Stop that. You're being silly."
"Aaaaagh I can't stop being illogical and silly!!! Yet again I have probably been a rabidly snarky Tourette wombat and now I can never make up for my evil meanness! Dooooom!"
"Still being silly."
"Waaaaaaah!"
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on 2006-01-22 07:01 pm (UTC)