Saturday, September 26, 2015
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Wednesday, September 16, 2015
Did Bernie Sanders get Republican employers to agree with Medicare for all?
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) likely gave Republicans attempting to overturn Obamacare heartburn during a recent full committee hearing of the US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pension.
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Sunday, September 13, 2015
Saturday, September 12, 2015
Less Than Artful Choices: Narcissistic Personality Disorder According to Donald Trump | Big Think
Before we proceed to the rimary article, this is some rudimentay information about Narcissistic Personality Disorder (provided on http://www.mentalhealth.com/home/dx/narcissisticpersonality.html)
Interpersonal relations of individuals with Narcissistic Personality Disorder are typically impaired because of their feelings of entitlement, need for admiration, and callousness. Although these individuals are usually very ambitious and confident; vocational functioning often is impaired because of intolerance of criticism or defeat.
Like all personality disorders, Narcissistic Personality Disorder is a deeply ingrained and enduring behaviour pattern, manifesting as an inflexible response to a broad range of personal and social situations. This behavior represents an extreme or significant deviation from the way in which the average individual in a given culture relates to others. This behaviour pattern tends to be stable.
The effectiveness of treatment for Narcissistic Personality Disorder is unknown because there are no randomized controlled trials. Individuals with this disorder seldom voluntarily present for treatment. However, individuals with this disorder may threaten suicide during a crisis (e.g., when discovering their spouse's infidelity). The individual may then use hospitalization as a manipulative ploy to win back their spouse, or to publicly expose their spouse's infidelity. Usually only brief hospitalization is required, with the goal being to de-escalate the crisis. Apart from such crisis intervention, most therapists believe that this disorder is very difficult to treat. However, with long-term therapy, some patients do gain insight into how they have become addicted to wealth, fame, or power, and how callous they have become. Admitting that they do have this addiction is the first step to recovery.
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Diagnostic Features
Individuals with Narcissistic Personality Disorder grow up feeling superior and needing to be admired. They have a longstanding pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy. The core feature of this disorder is antagonism(grandiosity, attention-seeking, callousness) which repeatedly puts the individual at odds with other people. This disorder is only diagnosed if: (1) it begins no later than early adulthood, (2) these behaviors occur at home, work, and in the community, and (3) these behaviors lead to clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning. Narcissistic Personality Disorder should not be diagnosed if its symptoms can be better explained as due to another mental disorder, Substance Use Disorder, or another medical condition.Interpersonal relations of individuals with Narcissistic Personality Disorder are typically impaired because of their feelings of entitlement, need for admiration, and callousness. Although these individuals are usually very ambitious and confident; vocational functioning often is impaired because of intolerance of criticism or defeat.
Like all personality disorders, Narcissistic Personality Disorder is a deeply ingrained and enduring behaviour pattern, manifesting as an inflexible response to a broad range of personal and social situations. This behavior represents an extreme or significant deviation from the way in which the average individual in a given culture relates to others. This behaviour pattern tends to be stable.
- Warning: Self-diagnosis of this disorder is usually inaccurate. Accurate diagnosis of this disorder requires assessment by a qualified practitioner trained in psychiatric diagnosis and evidence-based treatment. However, if no such professional is available, our free computerized diagnosis is usually accurate when completed by an informant who knows the patient well. Computerized diagnosis is less accurate when done by patients (because they often lack insight).
Course
Narcissistic traits are very common in adolescents, but most adolescents grow out of this behavior. Unfortunately, for some, this narcissistic behavior persists and intensifies into adulthood; thus they become diagnosed with this disorder.Complications
Individuals with Narcissistic Personality Disorder are intolerant of criticism or defeat. They usually respond with defiant counterattack or social withdrawal. Their feelings of entitlement, need for admiration, and disregard for the feelings of others usually significantly impair their social and occupational functioning.Comorbidity
Some other disorders frequently occur with this disorder:
Non-Personality Disorders
Depressive Disorders:
Feeding and Eating Disorders:
- Persistent Depressive Disorder (Dysthmia); Major Depressive Disorder
Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders:
- Anorexia Nervosa
- Substance Use Disorders, especially cocaine
Personality Disorders
Detached Cluster:
Antagonistic Cluster:
- Paranoid Personality Disorder
- Antisocial, Borderline and Histrionic Personality Disorders
Note: Antisocial, Narcissistic, Borderline, and Histrionic Personality Disorders are all closely related since they all share the same core feature ofantagonism. If an individual has one of these antagonistic personality disorders, they are very likely to have another.
Associated Laboratory Findings
No laboratory test has been found to be diagnostic of this disorder.Prevalence
The prevalence of Narcissistic Personality Disorder is ranges from 0% to 6.2% in community samples, and 50% to 75% are males.Effective Therapies
Individuals with Narcissistic Personality Disorder are difficult to treat. They view themselves as being superior, and thus feel entitled to be callous, self-centered, and greedy. Their viewpoint is that life is the "survival of the fittest", and they are the "fittest". These individuals lust after fame, fortune and power. Many of these individuals achieve high positions in politics, religion and commerce. Most religious cult leaders have severe Narcissistic Personality Disorder.The effectiveness of treatment for Narcissistic Personality Disorder is unknown because there are no randomized controlled trials. Individuals with this disorder seldom voluntarily present for treatment. However, individuals with this disorder may threaten suicide during a crisis (e.g., when discovering their spouse's infidelity). The individual may then use hospitalization as a manipulative ploy to win back their spouse, or to publicly expose their spouse's infidelity. Usually only brief hospitalization is required, with the goal being to de-escalate the crisis. Apart from such crisis intervention, most therapists believe that this disorder is very difficult to treat. However, with long-term therapy, some patients do gain insight into how they have become addicted to wealth, fame, or power, and how callous they have become. Admitting that they do have this addiction is the first step to recovery.
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Yes, Your T-Shirt Was ‘Made in LA’—and the Worker Got 4 Cents For It |~ The Nation
"Los Angeles just set the course to boost its minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2020. But workers in the city’s garment factories will be lucky if they get paid anything at all..."
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Thursday, September 10, 2015
Wednesday, September 9, 2015
Obama Punk-Slaps the Entire GOP Field!
"Folks, I thought First-Term-Obama was special--but this Second-Term-Prez is truly special. Today, at a labor day speech in Boston, he punched republicans in their political faces eight times:http://www.usatoday.com/..." CLICK HERE TO READ MORE!
Wednesday, September 2, 2015
"Are You An Indigo?" ~ in5d
A couple of decades ago, in my work with pre-teens, teens and twenties, I received a telephone call from two different teachers who had the same question: "Do you treat/work with Indigos?"
At that time I said that I did not, but was planning and training to do so very soon. No, that was not really an untruth because, that quickly, I was already deeply researching this topic.
This following, from the article in5d, might interest you:
At that time I said that I did not, but was planning and training to do so very soon. No, that was not really an untruth because, that quickly, I was already deeply researching this topic.
This following, from the article in5d, might interest you:
"Are you an Indigo?"
Indigo children is the name given to the new type of human being born in this generation.
Displaying amazing feats of intuition and intelligence beyond their years, these indigos have begun more of a common concept within our lexicon.
This list is developed by play therapist Jan Yordy , a former elementary school teacher and child counselor who’s been working with parents and children for 25 years.
As we go over the list, see if you resonate with any of these traits:
1. May be strong willed independent thinkers who prefer to do their own thing rather than comply with authority figures/parents.
2. Have a wisdom and level of caring beyond their youthful experience.
3. Traditional parenting and discipline strategies don’t appear effective with these children. If you try to force an issue, a power struggle is the typical outcome.
4. Energetically, Indigos are vibrating at a much higher frequency so they can get scrambled by negative energy (human or machine).
5. Emotionally they can be reactive and may have problems with anxiety, depression or temper rages if not energetically balanced.
6. Are creative right brain thinkers, but may struggle to learn in a traditional left brain school system.
7. Often Indigos are diagnosed with ADD and ADHD since they appear impulsive (their brain can process information faster) and they require movement to help keep them better focused.
8. Indigos are very intuitive, and may see hear or know things that seem unexplainable.
9. Indigos have more problems with food and environmental sensitivities, since their system is more finely tuned.
10. When their needs are not met, these children seem self centered and demanding, although this is not their true nature.
11. These children have incredible gifts and potential, but they may be shut down when not properly nurtured and accepted.
Monday, August 31, 2015
Sunday, August 30, 2015
Meet Donald Trump's base --Daily Kos
"In North Dakota, a white supremacist looking for a town he can take over and turn into his dreamed-of white supremacist enclave says he'd name the town after his new hero, Donald Trump."
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The Biggest Scandal in US History That We're Still Not Talking About---ACCOMPANYING GRAPHIC!
"The above is roughly what 8.5 Trillion dollars would look like... and those are $100 bills. Take another look and let that sink in for a bit..." CLICK HERE TO READ ABOUT THIS SHOCKING, PROVEN FACT!
Saturday, August 29, 2015
"Won't Somebody Please Think Of The Children?"
"The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), in their continuing effort to protect people from reality, hasslapped an R-rating on Lee Hirsch’s new documentary 'Bully,...." CLICK HERE TO READ!
On Rightwing Christians: Have you noticed something odd about this Ashley Madison scandal?
"Since the Ashley Madison scandal broke, I have noticed a distinct lack of condemnation from you rightwing christians......."
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THIS Is What Institutional Racism Looks Like
"There has been a lot of talk about institutional racism recently with most of the focus being on the strong and important #BlackLivesMatter movement, but that's not the only way our society discriminates against people of color and sometimes we are lucky enough to get a first hand glimpse into other aspects of this blight on our country. Today is one of those days as the University of Pennsylvania study..." CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING
Thursday, August 20, 2015
6 Signs of Narcissism You May Not Know About | Psychology Today
"How can you recognize the fragility behind the narcissist’s grandiosity?" ... CLICK HERE TO READ MORE!
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