Tag Archives: irresponsibility

What Made Them This Way?: Understanding Disturbed Characters

December 7, 2011Abuseabuse, boundaries, character, enabling, irresponsibility, limits, neglect, relationships, responsibility, trauma, understandingDr. Simon

When you strive too hard to “understand” a person’s behavior, you can often inadvertently excuse it.

Justice served or Still Denied?

November 30, 2011Personality and Character, Personality and Character Disorders, Responsibilitycharacter, character crisis, Conrad Murray, culture, entitlement, irresponsibility, justice, Michael Jackson, societyDr. Simon

Dr. Murray’s case should serve as a glaring example of the price we all pay when even one individual among us refuses to hold himself accountable.

Character on Trial: Some Lessons to Learn

October 13, 2011Personality and Character, Psychobable, Relationships, Responsibilityboundaries, character, enabling, irresponsibility, limits, relationships, responsibilityDr. Simon

Society can set all the limits and boundaries it chooses. But the willingness to respect those boundaries and limits instead of trying to get around them is an a matter of each individual heart.

Sheen, Madoff, Gibson, and the Phenomenon of our Age

March 9, 2011Abuse, Addiction and Recovery, Personality and Character Disorders, Relationshipsaddiction, bipolar disorder, character disturbance, hypomanic episode, irresponsibility, mania, manic episode, Personality and Character Disorders, personality disorders, thinking errors, Unhealthy RelationshipsDr. Simon

The antics of Charlie Sheen, Bernie Madoff, and Mel Gibson demonstrate why character really does matter. As I state in the title of one of my books, character disturbance is the phenomenon of our age.

Don’t They See What They’re Doing?: Why the Disturbed Characters in Your Life Don’t Seem to “Get It”

February 22, 2011Abuse, Personality and Character Disorders, RelationshipsAbuse, character disorder, character disturbance, impression management, insight, irresponsibility, Unhealthy RelationshipsDr. Simon

Trying too hard to get the other person to understand inevitably leads those in relationships with responsibility-deficient characters to feel angry, frustrated, and ultimately depressed and defeated.

Facilitating Change in Irresponsible Characters

February 14, 2011Abuse, Manipulation, Personality and Character Disorders, Psychological Manipulation, Relationshipscharacter, character disturbance, empowerment, irresponsibility, manipulation, manipulation tactics, personality, Personality and Character Disorders, personality disorders, responsibility, Unhealthy RelationshipsDr. Simon

The more often they’re held accountable by others, and the more often they’re expected to abandon their typical manipulative tactics for more appropriate behaviors, the more “practiced” [disturbed characters] become at being responsible.

Why Some People Constantly Hurt Others

November 19, 2010Abuse, Manipulation, Manipulators, Personality and Character Disorders, Relationshipsabuse, character, character disturbance, control, irresponsibility, manipulation, Unhealthy RelationshipsDr. Simon

The character of some individuals is so significantly flawed that they can’t help but to bring much pain, misery, and hardship into the life of others.

Overcoming Misconceptions about Character Disturbance

October 14, 2010Neurotics, Personality and Character Disorders, Psychological Manipulationcharacter disturbance, irresponsibility, lack of insight, lying, manipulation, neurosis, personality disordersDr. Simon

Many free societies have developed cultures of permissiveness and entitlement prompting far too many persons to enter adulthood not adequately socialized and evidencing profound deficiencies of character, sometimes well past their mid-life years.

Another Day in It’s All About Me Hell

September 24, 2010Personality and Character Disorders, Relationshipscharacter, character disorder, character disturbance, entitled, entitlement, excitement-seeking, hedonism, irresponsibility, personality disorder, responsibility, self-centered, self-indulgent, Unhealthy RelationshipsDr. Simon

Disturbed characters’ self-indulgence always creates a living hell for those around them but can also create one for themselves. This woman’s life will be a continual shipwreck until she makes up her mind to start accepting some responsibility for her actions and their impact on those she supposedly loves.

Will He Ever Change?

May 20, 2010Neurotics, Personality and Character Disorders, Psychological Manipulation, Relationshipscharacter, character disorder, character disturbance, irresponsibility, manipulation tactics, neurosis, neurotic, personality, personality disorder, therapy, Unhealthy RelationshipsDr. Simon

Dealing with disturbed characters effectively requires a completely different strategy from traditional methods.

Dr. George Simon

A Resource for Understanding and Dealing with Narcissists, Manipulators, and other Problem Characters