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Actually must be pretty sheltered cause I just don't run into this shit anymore.
The cool kids have moved on to using ableism to mock public figures. Now Trump is a psychopath, Musk is a narcissist, and Peterson is schizo.
I know right, can't we just leave the high functioning unmedicated, untreated, psychopaths, narcissist, and schitzos alone. Its perfectly normal they hold reins of power.
It's abelist to suggest that a personality that you don't like is mentally ill.
I don't make a habit of it. I do think there are instances where it is justified.
You're so cool
Not as cool as being an apologist for christo-fascists
You, uh, didn't pay any attention to the point of the original post, did you?
Drag, I get where you're coming from, but don't you think those three groups are different?
Schizo? Schizo ppl are harmless and don't deserve to have something fundamental to their mental state used as an insult. I completely agree with you here.
Narcissist? This wasn't always a diagnosis and doesn't always refer to one. I don't see anything wrong with using this as an insult. Defending it under ableism kinda feels like calling the word "abuser" abelist - sure, abusive people probably also struggle with mental health.
Psychopath? That's also pretty hard to defend.
Honesty I think you'd be better off pointing out how these people aren't mentally ill and are fully culpable for what they do, instead of labeling it all abelist.
The word Schizo definetly doesn't belong here, that is abelist. Peterson isn't schizo he's a close minded misandrist.
Drag is willing to accept that premise only after psychologists put "abuser disorder" in the DSM. They can probably put it right next to "crime disorder" and "being a bad person disorder" within the "things that are behaviours and not mental health conditions" section. Until that section gets made, everything in the DSM is a mental health condition and NOT an action.
Por que no los dos?
Trump is a criminal because he's chosen to do criminal things. Musk is an abuser because he's chosen to do abusive things. ASPD and NPD aren't choices and they aren't actions. Mixing up criminal and abusive behaviour with mental health conditions is ableist. It's the ableism that happens when you hear about a bad thing and assume a minority did it. "Someone robbed the convenience store? Must have been a black." "A famous musician molested a child? I always knew he was gay." "A politician bribed a pornstar with campaign funds to hide his relationship with her? He must have a mental illness." It's wrong.
Taking words away from people that they use to describe their abusers (narcissist, psychopath) is going to hurt people who don't deserve it (schizophrenia, etc) when you lump it all together as abelism. That's my point.
In my opinion, they did put abuser disorder in the DSM. Here's the diagnosis criterion for NPD (need 5/9, must be maladaptive) Notice how its just the description of an emotionally abusive person, when you need 5 and its gotta be bad enough to affect your life?
This is from Wikipedia, btw, I dont own the manual and cant find it online. DSM is just a guide to help psychiatrists give treatment to people who need help, not a list of descriptors you can no longer use.
Is it really? Let's do some math.
The way other people feel about themselves isn't an attack on you. You don't have the right to police other people's level of self esteem. Abusive traits so far: 0/1
The way other people feel about themselves isn't an attack on you. You don't have the right to police other people's level of self esteem. Abusive traits so far: 0/2
The way other people feel about themselves isn't an attack on you. You don't have the right to police other people's level of self esteem. Abusive traits so far: 0/3
Other people having needs isn't an attack on you. You don't have the right to police other people's needs. You can say no, you can say you don't personally want to be asked or expected to do it, you can't get mad at people for wanting something. Abusive traits so far: 0/4
This is called being a Karen, not being an abuser. Abusive traits so far: 0/5
This one is abusive. Abusive traits so far: 1/6
Other people not having the feelings you want them to have isn't an attack on you. You don't have the right to police other people's feelings. Abusive traits so far: 1/7
Other people having bad feelings isn't an attack on you. You don't have the right to police other people's feelings. Abusive traits so far: 1/8
The way other people feel about themselves isn't an attack on you. You don't have the right to police other people's level of self esteem. Abusive traits so far: 1/9
Okay, we did the math and found that only one out of nine traits is abusive, and given five are required for a diagnosis, it's reasonable to assume most people with NPD don't have any symptoms that make them abusers. On the other hand, most of the traits you called abusive were just other people's feelings you don't like. So it sounds like you're just interested in being the thought police and acting like the contents of other people's heads is an attack on you. Which, you know, is a method abusers use to control their victims. Drag doesn't like you.
Alright Drag, that's fine. I usually respect what you have to say that's why I took the time to type all that out. I'll stay out of your replies in the future.
I'm just going to point out the criteria is "maladaptive" not being a Karen sometimes, so I don't agree with your ratings. Being a pain in the ass sometimes isn't the same as having something so wrong with your personality that you need a pathological label.
I'm pointing out a word people have used for thousands of years to reference antisocial behavior really shouldn't be called ableism, because when you do that, you weaken the word ableism. That's hardly thought policing.
Sorry about the aggression. Drag thought you were unfairly judging people for the way they are, and wanted to make you feel the way you make people with NPD feel.
Drag thinks you've maybe understood the meaning of the word "maladaptive". It doesn't mean hurting other people. It means hurting yourself. Remember, diagnoses are part of medicine. Medicine is about helping the patient. It's not about judgement. People with NPD require an excessive need for praise, and it's maladaptive because it hurts them. The diagnostic criteria don't have anything to do with whether it hurts other people. That's not a factor.
Drag interpreted your statements as wildly aggressive, because drag assumed you knew this. Drag can forget how little some people know about the field of medicine. Try to think about what you said in the context of the maladaptivity applying to the patient: "You have feelings that hurt you, and having those feelings is an act of abuse." That's what the discourse is if everyone understands that medicine is about helping patients. Drag forgot that not everyone spends hours pondering the philosophical purpose of medicine.
Anyway, before drag hits post, drag wants to share an article drag read which really contextualised the last two thousand years of history of the use of the word "narcissist": https://medium.com/@viridiangrail/narcissus-wasnt-an-abuser-he-was-queer-15a74e456838. The people who said the word started out being about abuse lied to you.
If someone is classified as NPD for a mere excessive need for praise, your beef is with someone else, not me.
Anyway, some context is required I suppose.
My husband sought therapy for multiple reasons, but because he had this sneaking fear he was a narcissist. He had issues with anger and criticism from others. It's not the only reason he sought out therapy, and that wasn't the totality of his struggles, but that's saying enough, I think.
The psychiatrist diagnosed him with cPTSD. He told the therapist about his fears about what his supposed narcissistic traits. His therapist told him those with NPD typically never have the ability to self reflect enough to have this worry, and basically there was no reason to worry at all.
He asked me to help him tell his mother about his diagnosis, that it was important to him, and I did.
His mother told him his psychiatrist was a hack. All psychiatrists do is label you so they can continue to make money off you, and she should know. She's been to around a half dozen of them. They all keep telling her she has something called NPD, a fake and made up disorder. Anyway, it's impossible for my husband to have cPTSD, that's for abused people, and my husband wasn't hit all that much. And those times his step dad broke his arm or something, he deserved it because he was a terrible child, always causing trouble.
Anyway.
It made me think of my own father, who was diagnosed with Bipolar. He would emotionally manipulate my mom and myself and my siblings when he was in one of his phases. He controlled her financially. He did other things that I will not name here. I wished she would leave him for years, and I even had huge arguments with her in highschool. I told her he was a shitty person and she should leave him. She said it's not his fault. He's sick. In sickness and in health, right? He can't help it, he's sick.
She only left him after he became physically abusive in my late teens. Even then she insisted we maintain a relationship with him and couldn't understand why I would refuse.
We no longer talk.
I don't blame her, but I can't maintain that relationship. I am deeply regretful of this, but I don't know how else to live.
The person who you are imagining, who believes themselves to be perfect and believes others should see them that way, and also doesn't do deeply shitty things to other people, lives alone. Sometimes it's OK to call a spade a spade. Eventually, it stops mattering whether someone can help it or not when they are doing terrible things.
I have read that medium article in the past. While interesting, one medium article (honestly, a blogpost) does not change how that word has been used for years.
Anyway, thank you for taking the time to read all this. I don't expect to change your mind, I just feel the need to give you context as to why I felt this way.
Honestly, drag agrees with your mother in law on one thing: the psychiatrist who told your husband he doesn't have NPD wasn't following professional standards.
Lack of self reflection is not a diagnostic criteria of NPD. That psychiatrist was not following the DSM, they were following their own preconceptions. That's not ethical. And it's not supported by the research, either, because the current research actually shows that people with NPD struggle with self doubt a lot. That's where the "excessive need for admiration" comes from. They need to be told they're not a failure. Your husband needed to be told he's not a bad person. Drag isn't saying your husband has NPD; he probably doesn't. Drag is saying the psychiatrist's reason was wrong.
Maybe your psychiatrist is actually competent, and was telling a comforting lie to soothe your husband's fears. Or maybe they were letting their preconceptions and stereotypes compromise their professional judgement.
I thought they were pedos.
^^hey, ^^they ^^have ^^feelings ^^too!
Not this shit again...
That's not it. It stigmatizes further people that actually have the mental illness. Calling someone a schizo stigmatizes people with schizophrenia.
It's ableist to point out the (obvious) mental illnesses of some of the most successful people in the world?
I'm honestly curious how?
Cause they don't have it. You think being pieces of shit makes them mentally ill because a liar told you that mental illnesses make people into pieces of shit, and you believed them.
You think Donald Trump.. the guy who slaps his name on everything.. the guy with a golden toilet.. the guy who brags about being the best and biggest and greatest... You think he DOESN'T have a narcissism problem?
He's not a piece of shit because of his narcissism. He's a piece of shit AND a narcissist.
Drag doesn't think he has NPD, and the guy who wrote the DSM entry on NPD agrees. A mental illness is a problem for the person who has the illness. Not for everyone else. Trump does not suffer any negative consequences from his level of self esteem. He's doing great. He's going to be the president again. He's the most important person in the world. The DSM says the patient only has NPD if they're in distress. Trump is not in distress.
You think he has NPD because you misunderstood what the point of the DSM was. And drag already told you that. You cited a bunch of examples of him being a piece of shit, you didn't cite any examples of him suffering. Doctors don't care if someone is annoying or evil, that's not their job. They care if the patient is in distress. Go learn what medicine is and then come back and have this conversation. And only say Trump has NPD if you want to help him and make him happier. That's the point of a diagnosis, it's part of a plan to make the patient happier and more able. Do you want Trump to do better in life?
Yes. I do. I think if he were happier, instead of isolated from harm by his wealth, he'd be less driven to be a piece of shit.
Content happy people don't feel the need to exploit others. To say he isn't suffering because he's rich and powerful seems like a poor metric. Those aren't metrics of happiness or mental health.
Well drag thinks he's been living in No Consequences Land for too long, doing whatever he wants, and he should go live in a prison cell instead. Drag thinks he needs to suffer in order to become a better person, not become happier.
I don't believe the American prison system does reform. They only do punishment. Which I think Trump deserves, of course, but I doubt it'd make him better.
Drag has no interest in making Trump better by helping him. Drag only wants to make him better by making him less able to hurt others. That's why he deserves prison and not therapy.
If you're right, and Trump has NPD, imagine what a fully self-actualised Trump would look like: he doesn't get offended when people call him weird. He's able to maintain strong diplomatic relationships with as many foreign dictators as he likes. He's not afraid of assassination attempts. He's even more confident, AND he becomes well-spoken and coherent. He stops eating McDonald's and starts working out, and that leads to him surviving another 15 years. That's horrible! We don't want Trump to be more functional than he already is! We want him scared, incoherent, and dying of cholesterol.
Drag doesn't actually think any of that hypothetical stuff is possible. Drag thinks Trump is already the best Trump he can be; that being an overgrown toddler is the limit of his potential. But if you're right, then giving him a diagnosis and connecting him with a therapist would be horrible for the world.
You made a lot of assumptions about the person you're responding to. Whose "they"? Who are the liars? When did the poster say anything about pieces of shit?
@surewhynotlem@lemmy.world to answer the question, one must assume that the celebrity is taking action based on choice, until they say otherwise. It is a person's responsibility to inform people if their actions are compromised. Otherwise, one should point out traits that are toxic, disconnected from a suspicion of mental illness.
Yes, but this assumes self awareness on their part though. Are they narcissist, or are they not, but are making decisions that are self centered and destructive. I'm going on a limb, but I'm guessing most people haven't done their homework to figure it out.