Some people are perennial pessimists and have "negative energy" and negativistic attitudes ("good things don't last", "it doesn't pay to be good", "the future...
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art12426.asp Mental Health Site Carissa Vaughn BellaOnline's Mental Health Editor Addiction and Personality Guest Author -...
The dogmatic schools of psychotherapy (such as psychoanalysis, psychodynamic therapies, and behaviorism) more or less failed in ameliorating, let alone curing...
Thanks Carla, They were funny.. I could just imagine pulling off the coffee trick. especially whenm it was time to switch back to expresso, lol. I havent...
The DSM-IV dropped two diagnoses that made an appearance in the DSM-III: the masochistic and the sadistic personality disorders. But these are not the only...
The Capgras Shift By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" 1. The Sinking My marriage aborted, my private practice stillborn, I...
AVE: i was so glad to ehar from you! I checked out your paintings...........OH.......MY THEY ARE SO AWESOME> Honey, you do not need to sell yourself short! YOU...
Wow~!! That sounds like a screenplay for an Alfred Hitchcock movie or the Twilight Zone!! Freaky...Is this anything like Dissociative Identity Disorder? I...
Thank you for your kind words! Very good insights, Ave! I am impressed. You may wish to Google for the Capgra Syndrome (the disorder at the base of this...
Thanks Carla, I have done more mini paintings.Doing little ones are popular on ebay right now, or maybe for a while. I tend to get a bit impatient on my...
DEAR AVE: My heart just was so full of comapssion as i read your words. I know you are a very intelligent lady and i know by your words that you, like me are a...
Dear Carla, Thankyou for those encouraging words. They do help and are uplifting! AS for my son, he married a very manipulative woman, as he seems to enjoy...
Dear Ave: I guess i thought i had it bad........and when i read "your story" my heart just applauds you for your honesty and the terms that you have come too....
The Narcissist in the Workplace http://samvak.tripod.com/faq81.html The Narcissist in a Position of Authority http://samvak.tripod.com/faq11.html Abuse by...
That was really candid and clearly stated Sam~ The one article was so close to my own memories of my XN he could have been a cookie cutter N !.. I mean he was...
My response to the author of these 2 commercial Websites: http://www.narcissismcured.com http://www.narcissismsupport.com She wrote: "There are many experts...
CORRECT LINK Phineas Gage was a 25 years old construction foreman who lived in Vermont in the 1860s. While working on a railroad bed, he packed powdered...
Only a qualified mental health diagnostician can determine whether someone suffers from a Personality Disorder and this, following lengthy tests and personal...
Children and adolescents with conduct disorder are budding psychopaths. They repeatedly and deliberately (and joyfully) violate the rights of others and breach...
Portrait of the Narcissist as a Young Man http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/narcissisticabuse/message/5048 Narcissistic and psychopathic parents and their...
The connection between chronic anxiety, pathological narcissism, depression, obsessive-compulsive traits and alcoholism and drug abuse is well established and...