Re: SF: Sign change

From: David Eather (eather_at_tpg.com.au)
Date: 03/09/05 

Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 04:00:06 +1000

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What you posted below seems like a good summary of your behaviour on
Usenet. It is a hard thing to fight against and something you will
*not* be able to do alone. You need and must get help. On the
positive side you don't need to feel "abnormal" about that - about
40% of people will seek help during there lifetimes. The only other
sub-group that is bigger is those who need help and don't get it.

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jstevh@hotmail.com wrote:
> Message: Narcissistic Personality Disorder: Reason for posting?
>
> Subject: Narcissistic Personality Disorder: Reason for posting?
> Author: James Harris <jstevh@msn.com>
> Date Posted: Dec 25 2002 3:50:29:000PM
>
> I've become really bothered by my posting, but I can't seem to stop.
> However, I realized that part of the sick cycle are some of those
> people who reply to me so negatively, so in the hope that these people
> might show mercy I thought I'd post something I found on the web, with
> limited hope, I admit, that anything will change.
>
> "Alternatively, the narcissist feels victimized by mediocre
> bureaucrats and intellectual dwarves who consistently fail to
> appreciate his outstanding - really, unparalleled - talents, skills,
> and accomplishments. Being haunted by his challenged inferiors
> substantiates the narcissist's comparative superiority. Driven by
> pathological envy, these pygmies collude to defraud him, badger him,
> deny him his due, denigrate, isolate, and ignore him. The narcissist
> projects onto this second class of lesser persecutors his own
> deleterious emotions and transformed aggression: hatred, rage, and
> seething jealousy."
>
> But here are the scary quotes:
>
> "Paranoid ideation - the narcissist's deep-rooted conviction that he
> is being persecuted by his inferiors, detractors, or powerful
> ill-wishers - serves two psychodynamic purposes. It upholds the
> narcissist's grandiosity and it fends off intimacy."
>
> "The paranoid delusions of the narcissist are always grandiose,
> "cosmic", or "historical". His pursuers are influential and
> formidable. They are after his unique possessions, out to exploit his
> expertise and special traits, or to force him to abstain and refrain
> from certain actions. The narcissist feels that he is at the center of
> intrigues and conspiracies of colossal magnitudes."
>
> "The paranoid narcissist ends life as an oddball recluse - derided,
> feared, and loathed in equal measures. His paranoia - exacerbated by
> repeated rejections and ageing - pervades his entire life and
> diminishes his creativity, adaptability, and functioning. The
> narcisstis personality, buffetted by paranoia, turns ossified and
> brittle. Finally, atomized and useless, it succumbs and gives way to a
> great void. The narcissist is consumed."
>
> http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/6514/95897
>
> It looks like a person in the grips of this narcissism thing loses
> connection with reality but somehow *feeds* on ANY attention,
> including negative attention.
>
> They called it "narcissistic supply".
>
> It really is a twisted illness that apparently can lead to even
> nastier illnesses. I am self-diagnosed (typical narcissistic
> behavior) but it looks like it fits to me.
>
> However, I've decided that I don't want to succumb to mental woes, so
> I am fighting the dark narcissist within by making this informative
> post, though it's probably a sign of the illness. In any event, maybe
> it will help in the long run as information is power.
>
> I will do my best to stop posting, but it will help if some of you try
> to help out by not replying to me, or if you reply, by refraining from
> the attacks that feed my narcissistic side, and its irrational beliefs
> that everyone is out to get me. If you have facts, sure, no problem.
> My inability to face facts presented without emotion will just be a
> sign of the dark side.
>
> My only fear now is that some of you are sick as well, and act from
> your own illness, so that you can't stop attacking in your posting.
>
> But on this Christmas Day, I will act from hope, and hopefully this
> New Year will bring a change, and an escape from the madness.
>
>
> James Harris

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