jgh:
My new Twitter account - @julia !!!
Right now I’m planning to continue the @juliaallison account too … not sure how they’ll differ, but I’ll come up with something. Yay! I’m disproportionately excited.
I loathe this woman more than is probably healthy.
Then I feel bad for loathing.
Then I think, “fuck that, just because I’m a chick doesn’t mean I’m not allowed to sometimes loathe other chicks. Someone probably (definitely) loathes me, and if it gives them sweet sweet schadenfreude to do so, then they can rock on with their hatin’ selves.”
Loathe her? Nah. These fameballs are case studies in a controversial (in a clinical sense) personality disorder:
“But can narcissism be acquired or learned? Can it be provoked by certain, well-defined, situations?
Robert B. Millman, professor of psychiatry at New York Hospital - Cornell Medical School thinks it can. He proposes to reverse the accepted chronology. According to him, pathological narcissism can be induced in adulthood by celebrity, wealth, and fame.
The “victims” – billionaire tycoons, movie stars, renowned authors, politicians, and other authority figures – develop grandiose fantasies, lose their ability to empathize, react with rage to slights, both real and imagined and, in general, act like textbook narcissists.
But is the occurrence of Acquired Situational Narcissism (ASN) inevitable and universal - or are only certain people prone to it?”
— Sam Vaknin, “Malignant Self-Love: Narcissism Revisited” (via)
More on acquired situational narcissism here.
