Category Archives: Psychology

The Perils of Affirmation Dependency

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Affirmation dependency is overly relying on external sources for validation of one’s worth. You develop it by not properly understanding what your worth genuinely is and where it stems from.

Amiable Narcissists Are Still Narcissists and Not Lovers

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Amiable narcissists come across as lovers. But genuine lovers care about you, whereas narcissists only really care about themselves.

Denigration Is Pure Sport for Narcissists

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Because they lack empathy, denigration of others is pure sport for narcissists. They readily enjoy gratifying themselves at the expense of others.

The Emotional Romeo is a Thief of Hearts

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The Emotional Romeo sweep you off your feet. But it’s one thing to desire only to love someone and quite another to be more interested in getting someone to love you.

Character Disturbance is a Spectrum Phenomenon

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While character disturbance is widepread, it occurs along spectra of both type and degree. Not every empathy-impaired person is a psychopath. And not all folks with narcissistic traits and tendencies are the same. Getting the right information and finding the right help can be a real challenge.

Understanding True Passive-Aggressive Personalities

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Pasive-aggressive personalities are very different from their covert-aggressive counterparts. And their manner of coping is incredibly self-defeating as opposed to self-advancing.

Malignant Narcissists Use and Abuse Remorselessly

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Character-impaired folks inevitably use and abuse others. And the more they lack conscience and empathy, the more seriously they’re likely to use and abuse.

Examining the High Cost of Shamelessness

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Shame can be certainly be a bad thing. And some shame is truly toxic. But in our days of rampant character dysfunction, shamelessness is a much bigger problem than too much shame. The most disturbed characters among us are the most shameless.