10-06-2020, 09:45 PM
@ sillypumpkins, hey that's cool, it's my absolute pleasure, and a big learning experience for me to.
@J.W. What a wonderful Jung quote to add to the conversation! Thankyou. Also, I like your analogy. Yes, the STS personality is built on lies. The further belief that changing one's external environment will "fix" the self, is also false. But there are those that empower their false personality enough, that they may progress with it.
As for those that play the victim. I think careful discernment needs to be used to decide whether that person truly believes they are a victim (in a paranoid confusion), or if they are deceptively pretending to be a victim while secretly feeling empowered (i.e. false accusation).
The analogy you wrote could be decribing a person with borderline personality disorder, a disorder which causes the person to split into intense over-valuation (you're my saviour) and then intense devaluation (you're the cause of all my problems). This is generally caused from childhood trauma. It is up to the BPD person to either move more towards truth (therapy, healing, understanding their condition) OR allow the condition to empower STS polarization via more and more manipulation, thereby leaving the "carnage in the wake".
@J.W. What a wonderful Jung quote to add to the conversation! Thankyou. Also, I like your analogy. Yes, the STS personality is built on lies. The further belief that changing one's external environment will "fix" the self, is also false. But there are those that empower their false personality enough, that they may progress with it.
As for those that play the victim. I think careful discernment needs to be used to decide whether that person truly believes they are a victim (in a paranoid confusion), or if they are deceptively pretending to be a victim while secretly feeling empowered (i.e. false accusation).
The analogy you wrote could be decribing a person with borderline personality disorder, a disorder which causes the person to split into intense over-valuation (you're my saviour) and then intense devaluation (you're the cause of all my problems). This is generally caused from childhood trauma. It is up to the BPD person to either move more towards truth (therapy, healing, understanding their condition) OR allow the condition to empower STS polarization via more and more manipulation, thereby leaving the "carnage in the wake".