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Originally Posted by starrysky
Hmm...I myself have wondered the same thing. Either there is a very high number of narcissists out there, or NPD is an inaccurate label used for other abusive behavior. NPD is VERY popular in the media and even on PsychCentral. Lol, go to the homepage and you're bound to find many articles on it.
At the same time, I dated someone who I thought was NPD. He was very into himself, didnt care about me or my feelings, was VERY manipulative, lied a lot, and was very abusive. he could very well just be a terrible person though. I think people feel better diagnosing assholes with something. But I don't know the statistics of NPD and how common it really is.
Ps: I don't understand your thread title.....
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There is an artistic game, popular when I was in college, called ‘exquisite corpse.’ (
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exquisite_corpse). Not so popular, now, I’m guessing? The ‘reanimation’ is a reference to Frankenstein’s monster or by any attempt to give that which is dead life.
So, my thread title means that I have been brought back to life from pieces of an artistic corpse. And, if you could see my scarred and wretched half-torso, you could see, with your eyes, the monster alive. I am a prankster’s experiment. I am a kind of - as they seem so popular in current American culture - a sort of evil zombie with an agenda. “Cruel to be kind, in the right measure.”
No, I don’t believe that this land is seeded with sociopaths only revealed in intimate relationships. I’ll visit the NPD forum, though, and pose the question there. I effing bleed for genuine victims (even my own) but I am suspect of those who cry victim, victim, victim, time and again and who take no responsibility for catering to arseholes.
I no longer have an email account that’s I use to see responses from anyone. I don’t have the gadgets to keep up with 3,000+ messages per day. I appreciate the opportunity to explain the name that I gave this re-introductory thread as well as your take on these tortured souls crying victim.