Thanks Glosarlo <3
Feel free to share some of your thoughts on the subject! Do you know anybody who suffers from mental illness, and do you have strategies to help them heal?
Often, we go in with our best intentions, trying to 'save' somebody with a personality disorder, only to find them drain us and drag us down with them into their neurosis.
That's why we need to be really prepared when we try to help people with personality disorders.
'Forewarned is forearmed'
Only by being able to identify the patterns and the behaviors that are pathological can we A) protect ourselves from them and B) help others become conscious of them and start the long journey of repairing their personality
It's really quite tricky and we need to be really aware of what's going on to be able to apply effective therapy...
The Buddhists have a concept of ''Idiot Compassion'' which is the worse thing to have when dealing with someone with narcissistic personality disorder. People with mental illness can be really dangerous to our own mental health, we have to be really cautious and prudent and not fall into the traps that drag us down to sick people's level, and instead be the ones bringing them out of their illness back to health
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