I read your post about how narcs categorize everyone as inferior, equal, or superior. If everyone is automatically an inferior, what about people we personally and deeply despise? I think there should be a category worse than inferior and I wanted to hear your thoughts-
thats just a normal human emotion and its called hating someone lmfaoo
I dont really agree with pathologizing every single facet of personality within the framework of disorders. some things are just normal healthy emotions. and deeply disliking someone who u know personally is something that happens to everyone
I think the original three categories work because they explain irrational and dissordered judgements, mentally healthy ppl do not feel so deeply inferior to others that they have to immediately tear them down in their mind or make it "safe" to regard them as better. yes they may feel superior or better than certain specific ppl or feel insecure and inferior with others, its not to the deep pervasive and irrational extent that we do. we feel this way about everyone, even absolute strangers that we dont know anything about
whereas knowing someone and hating them because of specific reasons is a thing thats perfectly normal to experience. and with hatred and anger, those feelings are already described as being unusually and irrationally high in ppl w npd and other trauma based disorders. so yea where a healthy person might just dislike someone and move on, we may become stuck in our hate and fixate on it and allow it to grow to unreasonable levels. but we already have a term for that heightened level of irrational anger and its narc rage. which happens because we have issues with emotional regulation because we were never properly taught to handle distressing emotions like disliking someone
so I think its just kind of useless at best and really damaging at worst because it promotes the idea that every emotion we feel must be pathologized thru the lense of our disorder
I also think ppl want highly specialized terms for normal emotions because it makes them feel justified and gives legitimacy to unhealthy behavior instead of understanding its root cause in order to dismantle it
instead of engaging with the issues in my 4th paragraph that explains why we feel so irrationally angry, ppl can slap a label on hating someone to an unhealthy degree, categorize it a symptom, and never look to understand it deeper. they hate so deeply because they have npd abd thats that, when in reality thats not an explanation at all and does nothing to help solve the issue
it also seems like u specifically just want a way to reinforce and justify ur hatred of certain ppl by giving them a "worse" label to further punish/humiliate them because u hate them. thats just childish. its okay to just dislike ppl, sometimes theyre dicks