It's Not Mere Extremism That Makes Folks

People With Anxiety Disorders Such As Ocd Know That Nothing Can Be More Paralyzing Than Having Too Many Options. Go To A Store To Buy A Sweater, Find Four That You Like And The Odds Are Pretty Good You'll Stare And Stare... And Buy Nothing At All.

Narcissism, Like The Other Personality Disorders, Is A Condition That's Known As Ego-syntonic. In Other Words, The Paranoid Person Really Does Believe That People Are After Him, And The Narcissist Really Does Believe That He Or She Is Better Than Or More Entitled Than Other People, And Truly Doesn't See Why That's Not The Case.

A Mere Ape In Our World May Be A Scholar In Its Own, And The Low Life Of Any Beast May Be A Source Of Deep Satisfaction For The Beast Itself.

Your Parents Leave You Too Soon And Your Kids And Spouse Come Along Late, But Your Siblings Know You When You Are In Your Most Inchoate Form.

Marriage Is A Lot Of Things - A Source Of Love, Security, The Joy Of Children, But It's Also An Interpersonal Battlefield, And It's Not Hard To See Why: Take Two Disparate People, Toss Them Together In Often-confined Quarters, Add The Stresses Of Money And Kids - Now Lather, Rinse, Repeat For The Rest Of Your Natural Life. What Could Go Wrong?