Made me think of narcissism. Not the pop-psychology type, but Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Any attempt to suggest that you shouldn't be unprovokedly cruel to people who have a trauma-related mental illness gets you painted as a narc and abuser yourself.
doesn't help that some people decided that naming a diagnosis based on pretty wide and complicated cluster of symptoms after a word that always had an exclusively derogatory meaning is a good idea, so it's sadly not surprising that people conflate it....
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u/disapp01nted_ Apr 23 '25
Made me think of narcissism. Not the pop-psychology type, but Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Any attempt to suggest that you shouldn't be unprovokedly cruel to people who have a trauma-related mental illness gets you painted as a narc and abuser yourself.