Educating about narcissistic & antisocial personality disorders; the master manipulators, pathological liars and serial cheaters; the psychopaths and sociopaths
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Apr 17 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
“Donald Trump was, in short, a certain type of New Yorker — brash, boorish, bombastic.”
Certain type?
Oh yes let’s blame his narcissistic and psychopathic traits on New York and not his psychopathology that’s associated with exploitation/criminality.
washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…
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
Apr 16 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
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.
Apr 7 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
“Excerpts from his speeches do not do justice to Trump’s smorgasbord of vendettas, non sequiturs and comparisons to famous people”
Trump has a smorgasbord of mental pathology that leads to the disordered speech and other signs and traits of morbidity reported here.
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.
Feb 10 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
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
Jan 18 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
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.
Dec 17, 2023 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
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.
Jun 26, 2023 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
It’s not hard to see how those drawn to conspiracy theories align with the traits of narcissism and indeed research supports this.
Narcissism involves the desire to have absolute power and control, to protect an idealized, aggrandized self based on a created, fabricated reality.
People drawn to conspiracy theories like narcissists are trying to preserve their beliefs/persona in the face of uncertainty, contradictions, threats to their control and security, and inability to control outcomes.
Apr 5, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Donald Trump has severe and dangerous mental pathology.
That speech last night represented decompensation.
That is a man with narcissistic and antisocial personality disorders decompensating under the weight and stress of exposure and legal accountability.
He is deeply injured by real world accountability. It threatens his grandiosity and belief that he is the only meaningful existence. Accountability produces narcissistic rage, bewilderment that others can force him into reality, and indignation mimicking a disciplined toddler.
Feb 14, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
This story is now told in a 3 part documentary “Stolen Youth” on Hulu.
The traits/tactics of coercive control/abuse by malignant narcissists are always the same:
• tap into insecurities, low self-esteem in the target
• love bomb: flattery, compliments, made to feel special
• grandiose, charismatic storytelling where the targets are “transfixed” and “enamored” by outlandish and fabricated “accomplishments.”
• portray themselves as compassionate and looking out for the target’s better interests.
Jan 26, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Let’s cut to the chase. After the narcissistic psychopath President incited 1/6, Chao resigned citing the 'traumatic,' 'avoidable' Capitol riot. Chao caused him major public narcissistic injury. She committed the biggest sin. She was disloyal. She didn’t sacrifice for him.
The narcissistic psychopath experiences Chao looking after herself as treasonous, a direct threat to the survival of his idealized self as a “competent, normal” human being. The obsessive racist attacks on Chao are his need to destroy the threat and heal his deep sense of injury.
Dec 24, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
What Trump and Musk share in their masterful ability to psychologically manipulate is driven by their pathology: malignant narcissism/narcissistic psychopathy.
Their pathology is characterized by an insatiable quest for omnipotent power and control through lies and manipulation.
The only way to mask their conscienceless, defective, compromised true being (that is incapable of humanity) is through creation of a compensatory idealized and aggrandized self. They do this with lies, disinformation, fabrication, manipulation and coercion.
Nov 3, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
This thread 🎯
“The ability to assert a false reality in the face of empirical evidence is itself an act of power."
This is inherent to the pathology and psychological manipulation and abuse of all narcissistic psychopath exploiters.
Sticking to a false narrative/false reality in the face of irrefutable proof against it, the narcissistic exploiter creates psychological precariousness, instability and chaos.
Oct 30, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Musk is the more intelligent-sophisticated exploitive version of Trump’s malignant narcissism. They get narcissistic supply from controversy, chaos, threats, trolling, abuse, destruction violence, brutality, death.
The malignant narcissist always creates conflict that further divides and alienates.
The inevitable result is desensitization with repeated trauma inflicted by the exploiters, gradually moving us further away from decency and humanity. The decent get railroaded.
Oct 13, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
This riveting documentary by .@MelissaJPeltier is beyond excellent. So well done and informative! Brilliant editing and superb input by experts,
This documentary highlights former Trump supporters and their journey through the cognitive dissonance of Trump’s narcissistic abuse.
Cognitive dissonance is the psychological discomfort we feel when we hold conflicting beliefs about something simultaneously.
Jul 22, 2022 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
What Trump supporters share with Trump’s narcissism is denial, an active choice to engage in distortions of reality. Reality is abandoned as information is filtered to conform to their manipulated needs, wishes and desires.
Decades of right wing propaganda has instilled entitlement and aggrieved victimhood while belittling empathy. A large portion of the population were set up for Trump’s manipulative and self serving denials of convenience.
Jun 28, 2022 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
We can point out the hypocrisy of Christian Republicans all day long but fundamental to patriarchy and white supremacy is narcissism. They have an idealized self that is infallible and beyond reproach. They inherently see themselves as superior and lack empathy.
They absolutely believe in their intrinsic right to power and control over others. They determine the rules. Everyone must obey and comply.
Compromise, fairness, justice? These are not part of their emotional make up.
Jun 21, 2022 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Excellent summation of Trump’s exploitive behaviors and criminality. An interview of Gregg Barak (author of Criminology of Trump) by journalist Andrew Van Wagner.
“People need to understand that Trump’s lifetime represents a genuine smorgasbord of lawlessness.”
“This range of lawlessness checks off the boxes of all legal categories—Trump breaks criminal laws, civil laws, administrative laws, international laws, constitutional laws…you name it and he violates those laws.” 2/
Jun 6, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Mental healthcare professionals in 2015/16 warned a Trump Presidency would involve pathologically lying, fabricating, the sowing of chaos and division, violations of his oath of office and the rule of law, the breaching of societal norms and basic human decency, 1/3
bribery, intimidation, threats, corruption, criminality, self enrichment, the abuse of allies, the incitement of violence, and the destruction of democratic institutions and democracy itself.
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Oct 4, 2021 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
I’m waiting for a driver’s permit test taker and I’ve seen the same TSN hockey highlight 5 times. Not so insta today. 🤣 I must say the comedic part of Twitter is A+++
The physical part of being an elite athlete in sport is nothing compared to the psychological component. Anyone who doesn’t know this has never trained 30+ hours a week, sacrificing diet, education, social activities, and career for years to compete with the upper echelon.
The strive for perfection is exhausting. The lows are far more numerous than the highs.
My own personal experience, and that with young elite athletes I coached and parented, is that absolutely no one can put more pressure on them than they put on themselves. They need support.
May 2, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
“Months before the election... “We could see the disinformation really taking hold, this idea that the only way President Trump could lose is if the election were rigged””
While I warned it was happening in a ‘20 thread, given access we could have warned about the extensive grooming that takes place before a narcissistic psychopath discards. Like any target/victim, in this case the election, they are discredited as unreliable, unworthy and unstable
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