Tag: diagnosis
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Cultural Mania in the Individual
A very large majority of people in the American culture have normalized mania. We are affected by this because we live in the culture. We participate in it, either to fuel or to heal it. “Trump is not a man apart. He is, instead, merely one of us writ large.” Michael D’Antonio who wrote the…
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Self Deception and the Pathological Liar
How does lying to oneself or another work? Usually, lying starts as a coping strategy. It can start at a young age to avoid a range of problems from avoiding abuse to taking out the garbage. In adolescence it is a way to get some privacy and break away from parental control. Later in life…
