Narcissism
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Divorce and Your Abuser: Taking the Long Road Home
Divorce is not the short cut society pretends it is. I am a person who likes to be efficient with my energy so I am always looking for life hacks. But God, despite my preferences, has led me the long way round over and over. I am currently reading through the Bible through the eyes of John Wesley, truly an exercise in taking the long way. But reading through Exodus 13, I finally understood why it was that my routes through life appear so circuitous. The Hebrews are preparing themselves for an escape from slavery. They make their preparations and sacrifices. And Jehovah leads them in a puzzling direction. …
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Post Narcissist Stress Disorder: 3 Signs You Suffer
Post Narcissist Stress Disorder is a relatively new addition to the DSM. It is also an ironic one, given that Narcissistic Personality Disorder was removed from the same volume in 2013 to the protests of the majority of psychologists who know anything about the disorder. But academics aside, Post Narcissistic Stress Disorder is a diagnosis here to stay. The narcissists who abound in today’s society will see to it. The emotional trauma one endures with a narcissist is severe. Some survivors must struggle with symptoms similar to soldiers returning from war. The levels of abuse endured in a relationship with a narc can cause traumas as severe, though without the…
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Haman in the Bible: Eight Signs of a Narcopath
Narcopath is a pop psychology term, but a useful one in that it refers to a person who exhibits not only the typical symptoms of a narcissist but also two or more symptoms of an anti-social personality disorder. As one reads the book of Esther, the full impact of Haman’s narcopathic tendencies reveal themselves. But before we take a look at the long list of Haman’s character flaws, it is useful to understand him on a more metaphorical level within the book of Esther. Haman was an Agagite. This meant that he descended from King Agag of the Amalekites, a tribe that God commanded King Saul to wipe out in…
