Clinical narcissism is a different thing.

Post #394,931 by malraux 9/23/14 9:44:23 AM Reply	Clinical narcissism is a different thing. Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
Post #394,932 by mmoffitt 9/23/14 9:50:38 AM Reply	YMMV. IMO, having a Facebook account and updating it regularly is diagnostic of clinical narcissism. If not clinical narcissism, at least pathological egocentrism.
Post #394,933 by pwhysall 9/23/14 9:54:10 AM Reply	lol, no. IMO, having a Facebook account and updating it regularly is diagnostic of clinical narcissism. If not clinical narcissism, at least pathological egocentrism. This'd be in your informed medical opinion, yes? You are using words like "clinical" as if they mean something here, that's all. Or is it just hyperbole for effect? Facebook is a place like any other; it has your fambly in it, your friends. People who you hardly speak to, others with whom you shoot the shit daily. Sure, there are the attention whores, the egocentrists, and whatnot, but that's just people for you.
Post #394,936 by mmoffitt 9/23/14 10:00:46 AM Reply	Hyperbole. ;0)
Post #394,934 by malraux 9/23/14 9:58:36 AM Reply	I worked with one once. Narcissistic personality disorder is a vasty different thing than standard human behavior. Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
Post #394,948 by Ashton 9/23/14 3:53:16 PM Reply	That's interesting. Especially because you do bear in mind the differences that 'clinical' (tries to) set out. Knew a woman in '70s; her nick was Drama Queen ... histrionics, emotional excesses, often of the reductio kind --imputing oversimplified pop-psych. (She wasn't stupid, just her emotional thermometer was badly calibrated.) But whether this derived from self-love or self-loathing? was never apparent (to moi, anyway.) It's often tragic that psychology is such a pseudo-science, oft taken to be Authoritative. ('It' can get you jailed/or freed! via clever-enough pseudo-lawyering, thus adding to the rampant earned-cynicism all about. Humans rate a FAIL so often, for an inability to just tell the truth: I. Don't. Know. (in very many cases of our anointed Deciders. cf. The Shogunate.) And way too-many White-coated ones.
Post #394,952 by crazy 9/23/14 5:11:39 PM Reply	I asked bio for a diagnoses She included NPD in the list. When I argued she said "never mind, just fucking with you, too close and subjective". But maybe, she wasn't.

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