The truth is that they really do despise themselves and lack self esteem to such a degree that only a mental breakdown gets them to a place of accepting help. Once there, professionals must carefully help them establish some sort of self esteem but then, of course, the disorder is once more fed and will blossom into the disorder once more! And there you have it...they are as narcissistic as ever!
As I understand it, the narcissist can, and often does, resort to violent behavior. Some, if not all, serial killers possess this disorder.
I think the notion that Obama has progressed to violence is only slightly premature. He seems hellbent on a World where he is "Supreme Leader" and I think he'll stop at nothing to get it.
If you ever watched Pinky and the Brain, maybe you recall the inevitable end to each episode as Pinky asks the Brain, "So, what are we going to do tonight, Brain?" Brain's reply was,"Same thing we always do,Pinky. TAKE OVER THE WORLD."
Oh my gosh!
Dear Leader is The Brain and Joe Biden is Pinky.
LMAO!!!
“Are you pondering what I’m pondering, Pinky?”
“I think so, but how will we get the Klingons to wear rubber pants?”
They’re Pinky and The Brain
Yes, Pinky and The Brain
One is a genius
The other’s insane.
They’re laboratory mice
Their genes have been spliced
They’re dinky
They’re Pinky and The Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain
Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain
Brain.
Before each night is done
Their plan will be unfurled
By the dawning of the sun
They’ll take over the world.
They’re Pinky and The Brain
Yes, Pinky and The Brain
Their twilight campaign
Is easy to explain.
To prove their mousey worth
They’ll overthrow the Earth
They’re dinky
They’re Pinky and The Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain
Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain
Narf!
Wish I had read your post before I wrote mine! Love it. Have you heard of Sam Vaknin? He is the ‘famous’ narcissist. He’s not hard to find on the web because, as a narcissist, he wants to be seen as the worlds leading expert on narcissism - and this according to his own words. Sam has many excellent articles - one in which he describes how narcissists feel about other people (paraphrasing here: ‘you are an appliance to me. If you got cancer and stopped serving me I would be as angry as if my refrigerator stopped working’) is particularly chilling. Sam makes the point that he is unusual, very unusual, in that he is self aware - he understands his illness and the damage he causes others to an exacting degree but that awareness does not bring healing.
At some point I was desperate to find a source of healing for a loved one who has this illness. I railed against the field of psychology for turning their backs on those with personality disorders -don’t the sick deserve a doctor? If we can heal these lost souls, they improve and they stop damaging others. WIN- WIN!
But I came to the crushing discovery that science does not know how to build a personality once it is destroyed. The damage is supposedly done to the forming self between the ages of 2 and 4 years. Repair work must be accomplished by the age of 18 (I think this seems like an almost arbitrary ethical limit) after which, they are viewed as incurable. They are indeed treatable (not curable) and can improve their quality of life drastically by learning tools that help them interact with others. But that is for those who will face the ordeal (it’s very hard for them to examine the smoking crater where their personality used to be before it was destroyed in childhood) of counseling.
Obama does not want counseling. Obama wants dominion. Soon after the election, one of his lackys was taken to task for gaily speaking about how “Obama is ready to rule...” I have always believed she was not speaking out of hand but that she was quoting him and that he is so damaged he was not able to understand how we might object or why. *shudder*
As you can see, the topic is of great interest to me so I was very pleased to hear your take on this (e.g., students). It took me so long to write my wordy thing that I missed reading yours before I posted so I could have shortened mine - your psychiatrist source had a neat, concise and powerful way to to describe the illness that I’ll file away to refer to again later.
One thing I wanted to add (yikes - more of my writing! - I know, but the topic interests me and I dread what may come next!) was the idea of pettiness. Every now and then an MSN will point out a petty action by Obama and co., and the disobedient talking heads may even mention it. I believe that these petty acts show where Obama’s primary interests are invested. In other words - petty to us is primary to Obama. Small slaps at naughty journalists etc. are, in Obama’s world, the repelling of evil enemies threatening his very life (image of himself).