We have entered a new era in this country. One I am not proud to be part of nor do I wish for it’s survival into our future. We are now in the age of narcissism. Much was made of the “me” generation several years back, but they had nothing on this current generation of egomaniacs. Things have gotten so bad that even the Psychology/Psychiatric industry have taken notice. A few years ago (during O’s run up to the presidency) they began the process of removing Narcissistic Personality Disorder from the upcoming release of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 5th edition.
What has brought this on? How about a school system that rewards mediocrity? How about sporting events that no longer even keep score in the fear of alienating someone? How about a culture that embraces relativism at any cost? Also much damage has been done by an internet culture that convinces every teen out there that his/her opinion is not only equal but actually superior to all others. Twitter, Facebook, and many others have convinced teens that they are wise beyond their years, they consider their follower counts as proof of their abilities and importance. Now we have a President in this country that represents what they have always believed about themselves, that the “cool factor” is all that matters. It doesn’t matter one whit that he has accomplished nothing of substance, it doesn’t matter that he continues to destroy any chance of a future that any of these kids could ever have. All that matters is that he is cool. He’s not a boring, old, white man with too much money and not enough coolness.
The Age of Narcissism is upon us, may it die soon.
We are raising a generation of deluded narcissists
Published January 08, 2013
FoxNews.com
A new analysis of the American Freshman Survey, which has accumulated data for the past 47 years from 9 million young adults, reveals that college students are more likely than ever to call themselves gifted and driven to succeed, even though their test scores and time spent studying are decreasing.
Psychologist Jean Twenge, the lead author of the analysis, is also the author of a study showing that the tendency toward narcissism in students is up 30 percent in the last thirty-odd years.
This data is not unexpected. I have been writing a great deal over the past few years about the toxic psychological impact of media and technology on children, adolescents and young adults, particularly as it regards turning them into faux celebrities—the equivalent of lead actors in their own fictionalized life stories.On Facebook, young people can fool themselves into thinking they have hundreds or thousands of “friends.” They can delete unflattering comments. They can block anyone who disagrees with them or pokes holes in their inflated self-esteem. They can choose to show the world only flattering, sexy or funny photographs of themselves (dozens of albums full, by the way), “speak” in pithy short posts and publicly connect to movie stars and professional athletes and musicians they “like.”
Using Twitter, young people can pretend they are worth “following,” as though they have real-life fans, when all that is really happening is the mutual fanning of false love and false fame.
A Fate That Narcissists Will Hate: Being Ignored
By CHARLES ZANOR
Published: November 29, 2010
Narcissists, much to the surprise of many experts, are in the process of becoming an endangered species.
Not that they face imminent extinction — it’s a fate much worse than that. They will still be around, but they will be ignored.
The fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (due out in 2013, and known as DSM-5) has eliminated five of the 10 personality disorders that are listed in the current edition.
Narcissistic personality disorder is the most well-known of the five, and its absence has caused the most stir in professional circles.
Most nonprofessionals have a pretty good sense of what narcissism means, but the formal definition is more precise than the dictionary meaning of the term.
Our everyday picture of a narcissist is that of someone who is very self-involved — the conversation is always about them. While this characterization does apply to people with narcissistic personality disorder, it is too broad. There are many people who are completely self-absorbed who would not qualify for a diagnosis of N.P.D.
The central requirement for N.P.D. is a special kind of self-absorption: a grandiose sense of self, a serious miscalculation of one’s abilities and potential that is often accompanied by fantasies of greatness. It is the difference between two high school baseball players of moderate ability: one is absolutely convinced he’ll be a major-league player, the other is hoping for a college scholarship.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/30/health/views/30mind.html?_r=0
Tags: children, computer, Culture, Culture Wars, ego, Internet, narcissism, narcissistic personality disorder, psychiatry, Psychology, self-esteem, teens
hey!…look at me, I’m awesome
I don’t understand why it was removed from the diagnostic manual. Anybody know?
heysoos wrote:
Auditioning for a cabinet position?
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eaglesoars wrote:
Probably because it wouldn’t do to have someone notice how closely it fits a sitting president.
Mars, the DSM IV eliminated narcissistic personality disorder on the link you posted. But what other 4 dx did they eliminate?
I might have missed the link in your post.
lobo91 wrote:
Narcissistic? Someone who inserted himself into all the historical and biographical tidbits on the White House website even if they had nothing to do with him? Someone who posted a picture of himself to commemorate Neil Armstrong, and another one of himself to commemorate Rosa Parks’ bus sitdown? Someone who babbled incoherently about himself and his family childhood roadtrip at the funeral of Hawaii Senator Daniel Inouye?
How could anyone possibly say this was a narcissistic man?
NPD is still in the dsm iv tr. I know it’s being removed from the v. Didn’t really look into what else is gone. The only other one I know of for sure being removed is Asbergers is being voles into general autism.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
his buttchugging minions are already looking for an appropriate mountain
heysoos wrote:
If the mountain will not come to Mohammed, Mohammed must go to the mountain…
Mars wrote:
when does Low Information Voter Syndrome make books?
I think the main reason it’s being removed is largely due to the self esteem movement. Can’t be running around diagnosing all these self absorbed little assholes.
@ heysoos:
I suppose they’re touting him for Mount Rushmore because his hurry-up-and-pass-this-at-the-last-minute routine could properly be described as “rush more.”
Talked to Joe Bastardi; he had predicted Sandy 9 days ahead. But noone could act on it because you know, he’s not in Al Gore’s camp.
Mars wrote:
Narcissa™—the self-absorbent paper towel!
heysoos wrote:
Never under the current political make up of the psych association.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
now that was clever
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
How do they get the ears to stay on with striated granite?
Mars wrote:
Why not? They drug little boys for being little boys under the auspices of ADHD.
If I had to guess -- and it IS just a guess -- they’re removing it because they can’t fix it. If they can’t fix it then it can’t be a psychiatric illness then can it? It’s simply another notch on the ‘normal’ continuum.
@ Calo:
The fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (due out in 2013, and known as DSM-5) has eliminated five of the 10 personality disorders that are listed in the current edition.
well in the name of efficiency we now just say liberal
waldensianspirit wrote:
Oh cool! He seems like a great guy, I’d love to meet him. Now did HE say the part about not being able to act on it because he’s not in Gore’s camp or is that from you?
eaglesoars wrote:
True but they also haven’t been pushing adhd as something to embrace the way they have out of control self esteem.
@ heysoos:
When the majority of the population has a condition, I don’t think you can call it a disorder anymore.
eaglesoars wrote:
One might consider some of the psycho behavior by, say, school shooters as being a sort of “Silver Chair Syndrome,” for those of you familiar with the Narnia books.
In that book, a witch has captured the Prince of Narnia and is holding him under an enchantment which must be renewed every evening by tying him into an enchanted silver chair. He is sane for a while in the chair, until its magic puts him under the spell again.
One could say that the violent reactions by some children as they try to break free of the drugs they are under are a sort of “Silver Chair Syndrome”—or, if you prefer Harry Potter, a reaction to the Imperius Curse of psychotropic drugs.
Such as, for instance, endorsing self-mutilation and legal normalization (including falsifying birth records) for the mental disorder of “transgenderism,” since they have no means of actually addressing it.
waldensianspirit wrote:
Crazy glue.
Mars wrote:
I’m understand you point -- but I’m ot sure they don’t push ADHD. I think there has been an invalidation of maleness that begins very early.
How many girls have been diagnosed with ADHD? Why is it always boys?
@ eaglesoars:
The insurance companies probably don’t want to ahve to pay for their “treatment.” It would bankrupt them.
Mars wrote:
There are different kinds of “pushing.” Pushing ADHD on boys is a way of denigrating and devaluating masculine behavior, making normal male behavior an “illness” requiring treatment.
brookly red wrote:
I was just curious as to what was/will be eliminated next from the list. I wouldn’t even know what to pick off next.
Antisocial personality disorder
Avoidant personality disorder
Borderline personality disorder
Dependent personality disorder
Histrionic personality disorder
Narcissistic personality disorder
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
Paranoid personality disorder
Schizoid personality disorder
Schizotypal personality disorder
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
I hand’t picked up on the self-mutilization thing. But the transgender riff is terribly sad. Talk about mutilation.
eaglesoars wrote:
Also very true.
eaglesoars wrote:
because libs like little boys…
eaglesoars wrote:
Almost direct quote. He is a terrific good guy. Didn’t mention Gore but said since he’s isn’t an alarmist. He said they aren’t looking at all the data. But little segments when data fits what they want/believe. Fun to hear him talking about anything including sports.
He also said something neat about having a family strengthens a man.
I told him we have his back on the internet and he just grins
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
You always say it so much better………
Calo wrote:
liberal.
eaglesoars wrote:
Well, it is self-mutilation to encourage a man to self-castrate and grow breasts, and to encourage a woman to remove her breasts and create a prosthetic penis.
As I have observed before, no matter how fancy a uniform you wear, no matter how good your French, no matter how much you may sincerely believe you are Napoleon, you are not, in fact, Napoleon. No matter how much you may chop and channel your body and sincerely believe you are the opposite sex, you are not, in fact, a member of the opposite sex.
They should drill holes and hydroponically grow ferns and shit over the Obama Rushmore
Putting Obama on the side of a mountain would be an offense against Mother Gaia, would it not?
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
but we still pay for it…
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Well since anything without a dangle is aborted they gotta do something with 10 million or more extra males
waldensianspirit wrote:
THAT’S an understatement! Don’t know if you read the climategate docs, but Keith Briffa’s proxy tree ring data was so cherry-picked he would have been thrown out of any honest study.
eaglesoars wrote:
He was also referring to day-to-day. If it is cold they do something other than weather but if warm then they get excited and study weather
@ brookly red:
I disagree. There are a few on the list with a bonafied biochemical disorder.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
I don’t know about gaia, but allah would be pissed…
Calo wrote:
I guess that means you’re insane if you want Janet Napolitano to do her job…
Calo wrote:
ok, but still we pay…
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
We could have a really fun discussion about how some people think there is no such thing as OBJECTIVE reality.
Can I blame the French for this? Foucoult perhaps?
@ eaglesoars:
That’s one of the hallmarks of advocacy “studies.”
Look at how they twist the facts in studies of “gun violence.” They took the fact that the vast majority of homicide victims know their killer and twisted it into a claim that most people are murdered by friends or relatives, which isn’t true.
waldensianspirit wrote:
Have you seen the headlines that this has been the warmest year according to NOAA blah blah blah?
Did you see the reports that NOAA has been keeping 2 sets of books. Anthony Watts just eviscerated them.
@ brookly red:
And, we still pay for those on dialysis as well.
What is your point?
All those diagnosed with a mental disorder are liberals?
eaglesoars wrote:
now I do trash the frogs a lot but they are fighting the muzz http://www.france24.com/en/
@ eaglesoars:
Gee…who else does things like that?
Oh, yeah…the Chicago mob.
Coincidence?
@ brookly red:
Not the ones trying to take over their country from within…
Calo wrote:
no the diagnosed are ill, the un-diagnosed are liberal.
lobo91 wrote:
Democratic Party when it presents the numbers on Social Security
eaglesoars wrote:
Again, the Chicago mob
brookly red wrote:
Given the ass kicking they took in Algiers, tho, I doubt they’ll be putting boots on the ground, which is what it’s going to take.
@ eaglesoars:
No, have to look for it. Two sets of data should be front page news but that’d go against phony progressivism
Joe knew all about the comparison of duck shot gun vs AR-15 Mike-C had linked. There wasn’t a subject he wasn’t up on.
eaglesoars wrote:
Foucault is part of it, certainly.
@ waldensianspirit:
Do you know why he left accuweather? I seem to have missed a memo somewhere.
lobo91 wrote:
lobo91 wrote:
well yes but I read today we were sending troops to 35 African countries I can only hope we are doing the right thing even if for the wrong reason
@ eaglesoars:
@ buzzsawmonkey:
Or, Foucault is not part of it, particularly if he is—because to recognize his role in this mindset would be a nod to…objective reality.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Ok, I can’t spell. It’s ofishal
Calo wrote:
Remember the movie, “Dialysis ‘P’ for ‘Public Assistance’?”
eaglesoars wrote:
true but bombing the muzz is bombing the muzz and they hate it when people bomb back.
eaglesoars wrote:
Just say “Foucault all,” and keep on keepin’ on…
eaglesoars wrote:
We didn’t discuss it but the owner of accuweather is a miserable asshole. Surprised it didn’t happen sooner.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
I know many people find her -- well -- off putting -- and her book on totalitarinism was a bit incoherent -- but Hannah Arendt would have exposed these people for the eunichs they are.
brookly red wrote:
I know I know -don’t look a gift horse and all that…
waldensianspirit wrote:
Ahh. Didn’t know that.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Very funny buzz…………
With Obama arming the Muslim Brotherhood with modern equipment, explain again how he’s not a muzzie
http://www.france24.com/en/20130112-france-hollande-orders-tighter-security-mali-operation
France is fighting the muzz and we are arming them… I joke about the frogs but hey
waldensianspirit wrote:
he was raised in madras for Pete’s sake he is a muzzie… wtf
waldensianspirit wrote:
I think that won’t happen.
brookly red wrote:
Madras is in India; Obama spent his boyhood in Indonesia. You mean “in a madrassah,” i.e., the Muslim school he attended there?
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
It’s his keyboard. Just ask Lily and me. It’s our keyboards also. We know it when we see it.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
wtf our lives are at risk and you pick at details…
ok Downton Abbey is on so I’m gone. Later. Play nice.
The reddit guy is pushed toward suicide and Jon Corzine just laughs and laughs and laughs
waldensianspirit wrote:
strange story…30yrs for downloading confidential retail info?…
I can kill 2 1/2 for that kind of time
Pappa John Creech….
Next I suppose ADD and Hoarding will be removed? That way my ex#2 will consider herself Normal? Frak that!
brookly red wrote:
Well, they are a Funny Race, fighting with their feet and whatnot….!
/
@ heysoos:
Ry Cooder
Macker wrote:
I am the the first to trash the French but they are fighting/killing the muzz and we are giving them support.
@ brookly red:
I wonder which European country will go medieval on the Mohammedans first….
Macker wrote:
well it would seem France, Germany is struggling with PC, but the Russians have the ways and means + a bad attitude… but the MSM won’t say it but it is on.
@ huckfunn:
Cooder is always welcome…thanks bro
Cooder and his pals…
Keep appealing.
ht- Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
I remember an Easter Camp out my neighborhood had at one of the area lakes.
Sunday morning the kids (there were a lot) were going to do the Easter egg hunt.
That night I decided that some of those plastic eggs would not have candy, toys, or coins in them. Some would be left by Rocco the Rotten Rabbit instead of the Easter Bunny. Those eggs would have twigs, dirt, and discarded paper.
Needles to say it was quite a suprise for the kids when they found one of Rocco’s eggs.
And a funny thing happened.
At first there was the expected whining and crying.
And then they thought it was pretty funny and were giggling because everyone got at least one of Rocco’s eggs.
They were dealing with it.
Macker wrote:
When you say country, do you mean
1.the people or
2. government and security forces of that nation?
In Western Europe it will be the Brits where the people rise up against the
Muzz first (EDL) and the French who will be the first to deploy their security forces
against the Muzz.
In Eastern Europe the Russians and Serbs have already been whacking Turban heads and I suppose given their history the Poles would be no slouches in that department either.
@ Macker:
Oh, I understand hoarding. My wife’s aunt is a major hoarder. Her mom hoarded some, and she does a little bit.
Thank God Mrs MF’s nowhere near ready to show up on the ‘Hoarders’ show.
new thread
Sorry this is a drive by. After Downton Abby I did some readig and channel surfing -- came across BBC America and their interiveiw with Piers Morgan. Here is what he said:
…”a deranged young man who can get these assault rifles if he wants from a local super store like Wal Mart”
What a liar. That has nothing to do with what happened at Newtown. I found a link to that interview. Scroll down to the heading
Piers Morgan has no regrets over calling U.S. gun lobby stupid
@ eaglesoars:
And I have no regrets calling Piers Morgan stupid and a useful idiot for the communist regime running our country.
lobo91 wrote:
Actually, it still is a disorder -- you just can’t call it one anymore.
waldensianspirit wrote:
Yup.
mfhorn wrote:
I’ve known people like that. I live in a motorhome and whenever something comes in something else must go OUT. Mail gets opened in a public place where there is a trash can.
Hoarding is a genuine disease. People die buried in their own rubbish.