(April 25, 2022 at 11:54 am)Angrboda Wrote:(April 25, 2022 at 10:53 am)vulcanlogician Wrote: Not sure if you were saying this directly to OP or whether this is something that applies generally to all....
"you've got an internal perception of your self worth, then there is external perception of your worth by others IRL. Your actual self worth/importance is somewhere in between."
I want to say that there are some rich and powerful narcissists out there who are surrounded by people who value them highly. In this case, with that particular individual I's say their actual self worth may lie outside those two parameters. Likewise, you may have a nerdy kid with low self esteem who is surrounded by people who ridicule and devalue him. Same deal: actual self worth is not in between others' view and the nerdy kids own view of self worth.
Well, yes, and many of those narcissists would be diagnosable as having a personality disorder. Your counter-example isn't a counter-example. I think it's a bit silly suggesting Ahriman has a personality disorder, especially considering that he has a verifiable Axis 1 diagnosis of bipolar disorder, but your defense isn't particularly helpful.
I didn't really say that in regards to Ahriman. It was a response to Brew (in the case as he meant it as something that applies generally.) I just wanted to discuss the principle of the thing.
Ahriman is on ignore, I just scroll right past. I read the OP. That's it. So I've missed big swaths of the personality disorder conversation.
