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I agree with you. There was no attempt to engage the material of your original post. It was classified as psycho-babble from the outset and thus engaging it seriously would nullify that classification.


There was no attempt to engage with the material of the original post, because the original post contains no material, just various claims pulled out of thin air:

> Kanye is a garden variety manic-depressive

> It is likely West has one of the more benign flavors of NPD

> I think his biggest problem is BPD and drug abuse

The rest of the post is either true-sounding-at-first, but completely meaningless claims, or completely obvious things that provide no insight whatsoever.

> NPD patients usually don't suffer

Completely false. Narcissistic injury is extremely painful, and one of the reasons narcissists lash out in the first place.

> [NPD treatment can] correct if not cure the disorder in under 2 years

Also not true. Narcissism is a personality disorder, and "curing" narcissism in 2 years is not common. Everything "can" be done, theoretically, but the implications of the sentence is that Narcissism is somehow special in that regard. It's not.

> but due to the combination with NPD and vast wealth, and probably being surrounded by those that will never deny him his insane impulses, he's probably not going to get help until he bottoms out in clinical major depression for months, if he survives it

So assuming he's NPD, his wealth and sycophants will lead him to destruction? Yeah, quite profound. He also has clinical major depression? Where did that come from?

"Psycho-babble" is a perfectly appropriate description of the original comment.




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