by katana » Thu Jul 18, 2013 11:57 am
When people begin to pay attention to "PD", there's a point when people become interested in hearing from people who are similar, then (unless they realise the people are not real,) they realise that there is very little left to say about those similarities, or they begin to broaden their perspective on life beyond those things.
At some point people realise its not really healthy to dwell on defining them self by their disorders, and at a later point people stop caring - who gives a ###$ whether they are/were any kind of sociopath/psychopath or not? Its not really important because there is the potential for more in life.
Being overly focussed on or egotistical about PD is just like finding another way to support your own position/perspective. If you need to support a position/perspective for the sake of it, you're not free to just see whatever is actually valid, and it means you're actively skewing reality to some extent to support that. - Self-enabling tactic in many PDs, not just specific e.g. to NPD. (first one that springs to mind for many when these kind of ego defences come up.)
At the same time acknowledgement of PD traits people find less pride in might increase because they're more able to explore them freely. Conversations of "I'm like this" "I'm also like this" soon become invalid. People with disorders like AsPD may seek to prove or emphasise the disorder e.g. because they see strength in it, but at some point the idea dawns of why not just forget the disorder and decide to value strength (or whatever it is) for what it is in itself.
Because of the way that changed perspective works in relation to that identity, (e.g. based on an action-based value instead of an identity in itself) its also a lot more flexible, adaptive and effective.
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