#WorldMentalHealthDay2022

https://twitter.com/yourauntemma/status/1571145690415501312

"An individual who's developing must feel badly in different periods of time, must be tormented by sadness, depression, anxiety, inner and external conflicts. Without these experiences there's no development, there's no growth of self-awareness."(K. Dabrowski).
#WorldMentalHealth

"The so-called “axis of adults” was over. None of them had done nearly as much to restrain Trump as the President’s critics thought they should have."

People underestimate the depth of pathology in narcissistic collusion spurred on by the rule of a malignant narcissist.

https://twitter.com/alexbward/status/1556604163966074881

https://twitter.com/yourauntemma/status/889599142359691269?s=20&t=6BMGdOFzB7FN3ULZYGrdgQ

6 killed, 24 seriously wounded in the Highland Park shooting. A doctor present on the scene describes unimaginable, war-zone-like injuries.

The shooter, still at large, is a while male of slight built, around 18-20 yrs old.

The shooting is described as "completely random." There's nothing random about these heart-wrenching events.

It's our, America's, shadow, trying to break thru to our consciousness, to force us to pay attention and see the profound dysfunction at the core of our society and of our very being.

"What most are going through, Zaretska says, is a high degree of what she calls compression — not trauma. It’s a condition of immense stress that, she believes, can be eased through radically honest conversations both in on-on-one and group settings."

https://twitter.com/ikhurshudyan/status/1527250185478361091

"In Bucha, she estimates that 1 in 3 of the 4,000 or so people who lived through the occupation are in need of urgent psychological support."

Frederick Burkle's "Antisocial Personality Disorder and Pathological Narcissism in Prolonged Conflicts and Wars of the 21st Century"

researchgate.net/publication/28… "...in a number of cases opportunistic leaders, suffering from severe antisocial character disorders, have emerged first as saviors and then as despots, or as common criminals claiming to be patriots, sharing a psychological framework that differs little from those responsible...

The article, from 2014, presents interesting -- and quite familiar to us -- aspects of Putin's character:

"...he is improvising rather than adhering to a careful gameplan. If Putin sometimes appears to be making up policy on the fly, maybe that’s because (...) he is.

https://twitter.com/yourauntemma/status/1498360793972473858

“Putin is not someone who sets strategic plans; he lives today,”

“There were no documents, nothing. (...) But with him it was just quiet, no one there, no meetings, everything quiet. He’d sit there, or watch TV. He really likes watching TV.”

The conflicts that arise from positive maladjustment* to the status quo in our external and internal world, and their attendant anxiety and other unpleasant mental states, become vehicles of growth, propelling us toward personality development. *Positive maladjustment is a developmental dynamism (one of several) that arises at the level of spontaneous positive disintegration and usually is a mark of its beginning.

Narcissistic rage is one of the darkest and deadliest forces known to mankind. Before it erupts, it usually simmers and percolates for a long time, fueled by resentment, envy and entitlement, the latter always aggrieved as the narcissist's need for... link.medium.com/PYtw74HKUcb ...adulation and glory is insatiable and he can see the world populated by the undeserving, inferior people who nevertheless dare to be happier and/or more successful than he is.