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| 2017-03-07 |
| If you were to come across someone who cried in the streets, who saw the world in terms of black and white and made death threats against strangers, who cowered in a special room and made public displays of naked self-harm and blood letting, you might conclude that they were suffering from a personality disorder. All these symptoms can be found in the High Conflict Personality Disorder category known as Axis II in DSMV, including Anti-Social PD, Histrionic PD, Paranoid PD, Narcissistic PD, and Borderline PD. Alternatively, you might reason that these are the everyday behaviors of the modern Social Justice Warrior (SJW). Of course, not every SJW has a personality condition, but sufferers from High Conflict disorders are often drawn to extreme beliefs and behaviors under the illusion that they are acting politically. A 2016 UK survey found that, since 1990, rates of depression and anxiety among the young have increased by 70%, while the American Counseling Association has reported a "rising tide of personality disorders among millennials." That such disorders appear to be an acute problem with this generation may be an unintended outcome of the unprecedented experiment conducted in the 1990s and 2000s by progressive parents. ...The majority of millennial children (now aged 18-34) had two working parents; this was partly an ideological project of feminism and partly economic necessity. The downside was the damage done by daycare, services for which grew by 250% between the 1970s and ;90s (see Laura Perrins’ work on psychological trauma caused by daycare). According to Bowlby’s Maternal Deprivation Thesis, babies require two years of intimate attention to enable them to form the caregiver-child bond essential for secure ego formation. Any disturbance of this process will "predispose the children to respond in an anti-social way to later stresses." ...For the SJW, everyday speech contains a multitude of "microaggressions," or subconscious power dynamics which conceal colonial or patriarchal oppression. ...People with High Conflict Personality disorders experience similarly paranoid emotions about hidden messages, omnipotent threats, and imminent violence. In middle ages they used to beat crazy people - "to drive the demons out". Now, I wonder... |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #3 Obviously the virus has spread far beyond the 'Social Justice Warrior.' I doubt POTUS will be able to fix this one. Excellent article. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-03-07 04:52 |
| #2 hypo-stocism !@#$%^&* |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-03-07 04:26 |
| #1 Not sure it's a rising tide, there's lots of hypo-stocism from the boomers on. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2017-03-07 04:11 |