I have a weird theory. What if Narcissistic Personality Disorder can be trained, and it is actively being used in politics?
I looked it up, and it appears that NDP is mostly men. I find this odd because it's been my experience that women suffer from it more. In fact, I can't think of many men with the actual disorder. It's more than an inflated ego, it's the sense that they are the center of the world and if they can't control it, something is wrong. If their ego isn't being constantly stroked, they're actually scared everything is about to fall apart.
I'm not claiming expertise on the subject, but the disorder is relatively unknown on how it is caused. I bet there is a genetic form of it and a trained form of it. The genetic form is just a special form of anxiety. The trained could explain things like Love Bombing and political tirades. I saw a lot of people at CHAS who were convinced they were doing this grand thing. They didn't see the paid controllers or money being spent to make it look good.
The Red Guard wars in China were students who couldn't agree on who was more communist. The idea that the more communist you were, the better a person you were ended up in raging gang violence between schools. Teenagers naturally have a bit of NDP but grow out of it as they mature. True story, most kids don't understand that their parents don't know how their day went, because the kid assumes the entire world revolves around them. My son got angry at me last year because he thinks I go on theme park rides and go through cool museums all the time.
To this day, I read articles by lefties about how Trump is losing power and will be destroyed any minute now. It hit me that they were enjoying being the loud voice more than the actual knowledgeable person. It's almost childlike in their devotion of otherwise perfectly sane people. So, could they be trained in this idea? Could that be ingrained in teenagehood and never really rested in adulthood? If so, how do you overcome this? Mayo clinic says you need talk therapy, but they're also saying that it's mostly men with NDP.
Here's another strange thought. I've heard of the condition being misconstrued as autism.
I still don't know if this was some language related translation error or what, but I've heard from a German about how he specifically had to get treated for NPD as a child/teenager. Yet everything he said could've easily been swapped to describe treating someone with autism.
Are you certain he wasn't just German and the Americans couldn't figure things out?
I've had people assume I'm autistic because I tend to follow common German cultural traits. That's a really interesting subject to me, because we have so many cultures that could be mislabeled entirely because its weird to another culture.
Oh no, he's never been to America. He's German as in, lives in Germany. And I'd asked him if he meant autism or something like that and he insisted that no, he meant he was treated for narcissism.
Another curious thing too is some of what he described could've also been confused for sociopathy. He'd had a really bad childhood that messed his head up a bit. It left him having trouble feeling empathy for other people, etc.
He insisted it wasn't this either when I asked him. Hence why I found the whole thing kind of fascinating as I started seeing loose correlations with each condition's symptomology.
Ok. I stand corrected. And yeah, I can see that. I'm a foster parent and every kid I've had has a bit of sociopathy because they were raised up in a rather evil circumstances. It takes a while to train that out of them, and is the part they never explain to future foster parents.