Excuse the typos. You’d never know from this tweet that I’m a recovering perfectionist. It’s an example of what prolonged sleep deprivation can do.
Our elderly dog, a Lab-Great Dane mix, has been in rapid decline, we assume from a brain tumor.
There were neurological signs like intermittent incapacity of his hind quarter then suddenly within days, he lost his sight, his diurnal clock erased.
Maneuvering over 100 lbs of dog (more stubborn than I am) for weeks has been an exercise in humility & patience for all of us.
Our oldest daughter found him as a rescue when she was 12, after putting her internet searching skills to work. Since he was a mix rather than a purebred Lab like our previous dog, I tried to put off adopting the puppy because our youngest was still a toddler.
I suggested waiting, getting a purebred Lab, that way we’d know exactly what the dog would look like when it grew up. With this mix we had no idea. Our daughter, without a moment of hesitation looked at me and said, “You had me without knowing what I’d look like when I grew up.”
Needless to say with that argument we had the puppy by the weekend.
He’s been the greatest dog even with his stubbornness to following commands. He does them but on his own sweet time. From the beginning he taught me a lot about myself and about having more patience.
Dogs embody unconditional love, grace and forgiveness.
As a friend said to me recently, we humans and the way we treat each other, we almost don’t deserve them.//
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Pathological in concert: His obsession with status and celebrity, to be seen as famous and associated with the famous, his need to be seen as an expert on every subject, his excessive need for admiration, his inability to handle any criticism, his sense of entitlement and…2/5
his complete disregard for the feelings and rights of others.
How did Trump survive so long in New York?
Same spectrum enablers at all levels of government and law enforcement — manipulated, coerced and/or bought. 3/5
Trump’s spectrum of personality pathology can have a mental breakdown including a psychotic break under just the types of circumstances he faces this week. The humiliation and injury of public criticism/exposure, being unable to create his own reality, and physical exhaustion.
He can’t control anything in court. Out of court he can’t control the narrative. The gag orders cut off his narcissistic smear campaigns. He’s uncontrollable and at real risk for jail time for violating the gag orders.
Trump looked exhausted. He’s not controlling his daily schedule. He can’t sleep in or be lazy. There’s less time for narcissistic supply via rallies, Mar-a-Lago fan mingling, and beating celebrities/pros at cheat golf.
Some signs and traits come mostly from his narcissism like the celebrity name dropping and the need to be seen as superior. His vendettas and need for retribution arise from narcissistic injury while his lack of care for who he hurts or destroys from his psychopathy and sadism.
His incoherence where only a thin thread connects his thoughts has multiple causes — from his PDs/psychopathy to hypomania from chronic stimulant dependence to further cognitive impairment from dementia. The non sequiturs? The former plus low IQ, probable learning disabilities.
Mental healthcare professionals predicted all of Trump’s pathological traits/behaviors in 2016 in advance of his election because we were right about his narcissism and psychopathy.
The highlights:
• Pathological lying
• Discard for the rule of law and our Constitution
• Violation of others and the rights of others (people, democratic institutions, countries, NATO, WHO)
• Disregard/rejection of experts
• Denial of reality
• Other blaming
• Refusal to take responsibility
• Inability to take accountability
• Hypersensitivity to criticism
• Projection to launch smear campaigns
• Manipulativeness
• Grandiosity
• Impulsivity
• Recklessness
• Paranoia
• Disregard for the feelings of others/lack of empathy
• Treat and discard people as objects
• Projection to launch smear campaigns
When a narcissistic psychopath like Trump suffers narcissistic injury with criticism, exposure or accountability of his wrongdoing, he must strike back to soothe the injury.
The retribution always involves smearing/discrediting with narcissistic projection (the truth about him).
Trump is the hoax, the scam, the fake, made up, disgusting, crazed, NUTS, broken.
Trump is conscienceless. Deep down, repressed, he knows his true self is a defective, compromised human. He must protect his idealized self from any threat at all costs.
His idealized self is the hoax, the scam, the fake to conceal that he is the disgusting, crazed, NUTS, conscienceless psychopath who is broken.
Trump’s narcissism is the pathological defense mechanism of being/existing without conscience.
As @gtconway3d says, there were two groups of people who were right on the dangers of Donald Trump in 2015/2016:
Mental healthcare professionals who understood narcissistic psychopaths/malignant narcissists.
Historians who are experts on authoritarians/strongmen/tyrants.
Why/how does a personality disorder rise to positions of power or get away with crimes for decades, when we normally associate these pathologies with significant dysfunction/failure to cope?
It’s our failure to recognize a subtype of psychopathy where narcissism predominates.
Narcissistic psychopaths need manipulative power and control over people to feed their egos and psychically survive exactly like they need oxygen to feed their cells. Indeed they lie and manipulate like they breathe.