all comes down to one word:
SHAME.
(with respect to Clusters A & B, at least. No so much with Clusters C & D).
all comes down to one word:
SHAME.
(with respect to Clusters A & B, at least. No so much with Clusters C & D).
Last edited by tcaudilllg; 04-11-2010 at 07:37 PM.
Relax. Have a cup of tea.
Even the schizophrenia spectrum ones?
That's mental, not personality.
It all has to do with the relation of the vital circuit to the mental. Selfish people do not feel shame, and this results in their attempting to subvert social normatives to their own ends. This in turn leads to ostracism, which leads to their embrace of non-obligational thinking.
Schizotypal and Schizoid are listed under Axis II [1] and fall along the Schizophrenic spectrum.[2]
[1] Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[2] Schizophrenia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I know what you were talking about btw. If you mean "personality" disorders, just say so.
I qualified the assertion -- only A & B cluster disorders are associated with shame.
I think shame is a byproduct of being disconnected and acting accordingly. The real question is what causes the disconnection.
Guilt , shame and empathy are actually positive emotions. They help people not abuse others. Without those feelings, you'd just easily take advantage of others and not give a shit. It enables you to balance your needs and desires with the rest of the world's.
True, people without guilt, shame and empathy are almost always extremely successful in the world. But at the expense of everybody else's sadness. Once you wake up yourself, they lose their own power. And they either have to move on to other victims, or they have to stop what they are doing....or society has to remove the individual as he's too harmful to too many people. Usually though they'll just move on to other people in the guise of helping them.
Most therapy doesn't work cause most people in therapy are the ones that don't need to be there, the ones that actually have a conscience, heart, and empathy/guilt if they do the wrong thing. But society has a huge trouble with actually dealing with the people that need to be dealt with, so they create scapegoats out of the people that will cry and show mercy. People get a sense of gratification of 'helping the victims' instead of standing up to the offenders. In order to create a better world that people will actually want to participate in, people need to stand up to the offenders and ignore the victims, they can deal with their own pain just fine.