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PLEASE HELP ME ESCAPE!

Please #boost and share to other platforms.🙏I don’t have energy left.

Seems I’m famous (and real!) and desperate enough to go to the media for help. Yes, the trapped woman in the articles below is me.

Last year:
thecanary.co/global/world-anal

Now things are worse, I’m much sicker, being neglected and will die without a safe stable #home. Doctor’s words.

If not mentioned in the article, my father is a diagnosed narcissist with psychopathic & antisocial tendencies by a #psychiatrist. He urged me get away from my father asap because he is not a ‘safe person’ & neither are the other members who lured me back through the promise of help.
He truly isn’t but I have nowhere to go.

A year later:
thecanary.co/global/world-anal

I’ve tried every level of government, every service and they simply won’t help.
Please ask people in real life if they have somewhere for me to go. Could they take me in (can pay small rent)?
Is anybody an #advocate? I desperately need help.
I would be incredibly grateful beyond words.🙏

Please read articles for full information.

Thank you for reading.

#PwME #LongCovid #MECFS #Hypothyroidism #ChronicIllness #Neisvoid #Abuse #Housing #Dysautonomia #SocialWork #MedMastodon #PWLC #MutualAid
#HumanRights #Press #Housing #Journalism #MECFS #SevereME #Abuse #Neglect #MutualAid #Narcissist #Psychopath #Endometriosis #ChronicPain #CostOfLivingCrisis #Melbourne #Australia

@chronicillness @longcovid @neisvoid
@disabilityjustice
@disability @socialwork
@dysautonomia @mutualaid
@mecfs
@chronicpain
@mcas
@australia
@melbourne

(FYI the help services you may be searching for don’t help in my poor safe Labor catchment. All the services are divided into catchments & mine doesn’t count.)

Canary · Australia's state and services are trapping a woman living with severe ME/CFS in domestic abuseWoman living with severe ME/CFS in Australia trapped in a cycle of violence from domestic abusers to the punitive state & medical services.

@GossiTheDog This is the kind of coldness one gets from a #psychopath unable to feel or realise any significance of lives outside his own sad sack of skin.

As a psychopathic abusive police detective I once knew said, "I don't have a #conscience but people habitually try to project their own conscience into me to reason with - to comfort themselves into thinking they can change me. I toy with that. I know conscience is real because I manipulate it while interrogating, but I don't have it..."

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@fulelo 「That early experience taught me that no matter their history, if people – including serial killers – are able to be curious about their minds, there’s a chance that we can make meaning out of disorder.」

First interesting insight.

「When it comes to serial killers it is generally assumed that they are psychopaths, but I wasn’t convinced that applied to Tony. Psychopaths are unlikely to request help as they don’t want to do anything they’d consider to be demeaning, so on that basis alone Tony wouldn’t have met the criteria, as he had asked for therapy.

The psychopaths I’ve encountered in my career have been neither exceptionally bright nor socially able, nor at all charming. They are usually so lacking in empathy that they cannot see the effect they have on others.」

This piece concentrates on the *physical* violence aspect of sociopathy / psychopathy — it's in the very title after all — but for every murderer there is a far greater number of antisocial people plying their misanthropic acts in the society.

The conclusion? We should try showing and *teaching empathy* to those convicted violent offenders.

While I concur that it should be tried and could be helpful, sociopathy is a very deeply ingrained trait built on a lifetime of real or perceived experiences and as it is akin to a person's "operating system", if you can't rebuild it healthy will mere patching be enough to prevent relapses?

Psychoanalyst Otto Kernberg first proposed malignant narcissism as a psychiatric diagnosis in 1984. He described malignant narcissism as a syndrome characterized by a narcissistic personality disorder (NPD), antisocial features, paranoid traits, and egosyntonic aggression. Other symptoms may include an absence of conscience, a psychological need for power, and a sense of importance (grandiosity).

Kernberg believed that malignant narcissism should be considered part of a spectrum of severity of pathological narcissism. At the high end was "antisocial character" (as defined by psychiatrist Hervey M. Cleckley, now referred to as psychopathy or antisocial personality), through malignant narcissism, to narcissistic personality disorder at the low end.

He distinguished malignant narcissism from psychopathy because of the malignant narcissist's capacity to internalize "both aggressive and idealized superego precursors, leading to the idealization of the aggressive, sadistic features of the pathological grandiose self".[citation needed] According to Kernberg, while the psychopath's paranoid stance against external influences makes him or her unwilling to internalize even the values of the "aggressor", malignant narcissists "have the capacity to admire powerful people, and can depend on sadistic and powerful but reliable parental images". Malignant narcissists, in contrast to psychopaths, are also said to be capable of developing "some identification with other powerful idealized figures as part of a cohesive 'gang'...which permits at least some loyalty and good object relations to be internalized... Some of them may present rationalized antisocial behavior – for example, as leaders of sadistic gangs or terrorist groups...with the capacity for loyalty to their own comrades."

These definitions built upon his previous work. Kernberg had presented a paper on Factors in the psychoanalytic treatment of narcissistic personalities, from the work of the Psychotherapy Research Project of The Menninger Foundation on 11 May 1968 at the 55th Annual Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association. Kernberg's paper was first published on 1 January 1970 in the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JAPA). In his article, "malignant narcissism" and psychopathy are employed interchangeably.[citation needed] The word "malignant" does not appear once, while "pathological" or "pathologically" appears 25 times. Developing these ideas[which?] further, Kernberg pointed out that the antisocial personality was fundamentally narcissistic and without morality. Malignant narcissism includes a sadistic element creating, in essence, a sadistic psychopath. #MAGA #Trump #terrorist #traitor #sadist #psychopath #racism #Haitians #Springfield

If you haven’t seen a psychopath speak, this is it. This is a great example. There are so many people like this in tech, who will cold-bloodedly rationalize everything their company does even if it destroys people’s lives. The growth is the end that justifies the means.

“Maybe [those creative jobs] shouldn’t have been there in the first place” is the *perfect* psychopathic rationale. It’s their fault that I’m destroying their lives.

Maybe OpenAI shouldn’t be there in the first place. Maybe that’s the takeaway.

#ai #tech #psychopath

PS: Yes, I know, psychopathy is not a psychiatric diagnosis. I’m not a psychiatrist either. I’m specifically referring to a character trait that I’ve seen repeatedly appear in tech and startup culture, which repeatedly gets funded by equally psychopathic (there’s that word again) venture investors. mastodon.social/@nixCraft/1126