I think we have this unmanaged Out of control pain of living that is much worse than most people at all. And I do believe that social media has Inadvertently amplified his pain of living in many ways. So what if and someone told me they're gonna try this now. What if instead we say look We know you're hurting And we're gonna try compassion and give you a sense of like safety and security Attachment, I guess which you have been missing all along That's really interesting because I can see that my role in that dynamic is just making it worse so that I could uh, I This idea is a very humanistic psychology idea to express compassion toward the individual Even though
In this episode we explore what narcissism is and what is most-definitely is not. You will learn is that narcissists are not psychopaths, and vice-versa, but there is a form of narcissism which had been, up until now, confused with psychopathy, and vice-versa. According to the research of the two psychologists in this episode, narcissism may even need to be renamed, because it isn't excessive self-love, it's excessive self-loathing. Narcissists like Don Draper in Mad Men cope with their insecurity by donning a mask, and then spend most of their lives protecting that mask out of a fear of what will happen if people ever see what it hides.
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