There doesn’t seem to be meaningful “treatment” for most charismatic conditions in their non-extreme forms. Which makes me wonder whether they should be labeled conditions at all or treated as personality types. Maybe any personality type carried to an extreme is a condition.
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What ought to have been a Bridge Over the River Kwai “what have I done?!” moment for the antipsychiatric left was the realization that deinstitutionalization has de facto made the criminal justice system the primary point of social interface for the neurodivergent
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What I’d add is that most people are stably “sane” or “crazy” but fluidly move between these states. So-called sane people are ones who can either ringfence or channel their crazy, and don’t let it come to dominate all aspects of their lives.
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Another possibility is people who *do* let their crazy dominate their lives, but have so much charisma that they get others in their world to buy into their crazy — this is the “reality distortion field” of cult leaders, notably, including the current POTUS.
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Oh, I totally agree — and, they are indirectly responsible for one of the great social crimes of our time, namely the co-institutionalization of crazy people with criminals
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Isn't this more of an uniquely American phenomenon, though? (The use of force part?)
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Whether personality traits manifest as good or bad depends mostly on context. Take hyper-competitiveness for example: extremely valuable trait in sports, but pathological in social circumstances that ask for softness & gentility. (Which is why so many pro athletes are assholes.)
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I think psychology has an inherent problem that they look at people with chronic problems, identify similar symptoms, and name a condition. Then lots of other people say "Oh, I also have all those symptoms, I must also have x".
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Psychologists are then in the quandry that the more people have a condition, the more money there is to be made.
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