I’ve watched a profound narcissist suffer a complete psychological break.
Today’s Trump tweets remind me of that spiral.
Today’s Trump tweets remind me of that spiral.
Since a few asked, where that spiral goes (before I go run my last Xmas errands):
Increasingly irrational, utter rejection of facts and reality, spirals down into fully believing a fictitious personal narrative, says increasingly bonkers things, shuffles their inner circle.
Increasingly irrational, utter rejection of facts and reality, spirals down into fully believing a fictitious personal narrative, says increasingly bonkers things, shuffles their inner circle.
It’s just a lot of unhinged, manic-feeling delusion and outbursts.
They can’t handle reality and construct an increasingly fictitious version in their heads: they aren’t failing; they’re winning - and people are just trying to hurt them.
It’s just sheer delusion - blurted out.
They can’t handle reality and construct an increasingly fictitious version in their heads: they aren’t failing; they’re winning - and people are just trying to hurt them.
It’s just sheer delusion - blurted out.
The more people try to confront them with reality, the more unhinged their insistence that it doesn’t exist.
People nearby see that the train has left the station.
It’s something to see. The last glimmer of ability to think rationally has gone out.
They fold in on themselves.
People nearby see that the train has left the station.
It’s something to see. The last glimmer of ability to think rationally has gone out.
They fold in on themselves.
It doesn’t improve until the person has been pulled out of the situation where they are being subjected to public shame.
With Trump, they could distract or condone him off from the news but I don’t see how they could do that effectively.
More likely this spiral continues...
With Trump, they could distract or condone him off from the news but I don’t see how they could do that effectively.
More likely this spiral continues...
...alternating between speeding up and slowing down... seems to stabilize and then accelerate...
...until the vast majority of onlookers are staring wide-eyed, realizing what they’re seeing is a person who has entirely “lost it”.
I’m not worried abt him starting a war.
...until the vast majority of onlookers are staring wide-eyed, realizing what they’re seeing is a person who has entirely “lost it”.
I’m not worried abt him starting a war.
I’m concerned about the possibility he might melt down just fast enough to do more crazy sh** like pulling troops out of Syria while not going over a cliff so fast that enough for people to unanimously realize he needs to be stripped of power.
A full implosion would be less bad.
A full implosion would be less bad.
The most damaging part of the narc meltdown I lived through was the descent not the bottom.
You can do a lot of bad things and get a lot of people to help you when you’re on the way down but they don’t see it.
Just gotta watch from here. A slight stabilizing wouldn’t help...
You can do a lot of bad things and get a lot of people to help you when you’re on the way down but they don’t see it.
Just gotta watch from here. A slight stabilizing wouldn’t help...
If I had my choice, I’d rather he fell entirely apart in an unhinged nosedive quickly than slowly spiraled earthward while doing damaging things on the way.
The latter is really unfun to live through.
Either way, we’ll live. Just a matter of how long and bumpy the ride will be.
The latter is really unfun to live through.
Either way, we’ll live. Just a matter of how long and bumpy the ride will be.
