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milestogo

(16,829 posts)
Wed Feb 5, 2020, 11:30 PM Feb 2020

Living with someone who has a major personality disorder can make you crazy.

And although having Trump as our president is not the same as living with a crazy person, its just as bad. Totally unacceptable behavior like extreme lying is totally routine. Acting like an adolescent bully on twitter is something he does multiple times every day. He says and does outrageous things to feed his insecurities.

Living with crazy is the new American normal. And its making me crazy.

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Living with someone who has a major personality disorder can make you crazy. (Original Post) milestogo Feb 2020 OP
he has demonstrated KT2000 Feb 2020 #1
+1 2naSalit Feb 2020 #2
+1 Scotch-Irish Feb 2020 #5
It happens in marriages, too. generalbetrayus Feb 2020 #6
Yes - it is a control issue KT2000 Feb 2020 #7
I imagine Melanoma has beaten-dog syndrome. And that poor kid... NCLefty Feb 2020 #3
Reminds me of many DENVERPOPS Feb 2020 #4
And this is what I mean by crazy - milestogo Feb 2020 #8

KT2000

(20,572 posts)
1. he has demonstrated
Thu Feb 6, 2020, 12:54 AM
Feb 2020

a large part of my work experience. No matter the setting, it is the crazy one who rules. People are afraid to upset and set the person off. It works and they are in control.
All we have to fear is fear itself, otherwise they have imprisoned all of us.

generalbetrayus

(507 posts)
6. It happens in marriages, too.
Thu Feb 6, 2020, 02:31 AM
Feb 2020

Fortunately, I finally get fed up enough with it to leave, at a serious financial loss, I might add. I should have done it much earlier than I did.

KT2000

(20,572 posts)
7. Yes - it is a control issue
Thu Feb 6, 2020, 03:53 AM
Feb 2020

I now view such people as little children who cowed their mothers with tantrums and never learned another way. But why should they, it works most of the time. Congrats to you - you found freedom from a very subtle form of blackmail.

NCLefty

(3,678 posts)
3. I imagine Melanoma has beaten-dog syndrome. And that poor kid...
Thu Feb 6, 2020, 02:11 AM
Feb 2020

There's about a zero percent chance he turns out a good person.

DENVERPOPS

(8,804 posts)
4. Reminds me of many
Thu Feb 6, 2020, 02:14 AM
Feb 2020

Corporate executives that I have worked for while I was at a fortune 400 corporation.

Rather than go crazy, or risk becoming like them to survive, I chose to quit after Seven years of watching their self aggrandizing, narcistic love affairs with themselves.

Not near the same money, but my own business was much more satisfying.......

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