Narcissism is categorized into different levels. It can be a serious personality disorder trait diagnosed by a mental health professional, or it can be simply a behavior that is shown to you due to certain circumstances. If you have been with someone, wether in a relationship, as friends or in your family that has the following traits- they have probably revealed some sort of narcissistic behavior to you.
Self Centered
Sensitive to Criticism
Lying and Gaslighting
Selfishness
Passive Aggression
One sided effort in the relationship/friendship
No respect of boundaries
Long held grudges
No Empathy/ False Empathy
These are a few behavioral traits that portray narcissism.
Temporary Temper or Red Flag?
Anyone can show these traits in certain circumstances - we are humans. We make mistakes, and we can show behaviors such as selfishness. The point here is, how often are they doing these certain actions? Are they okay with hurting other people (including you) if it means they will benefit from it? Asking these questions will help you determine if this can be a temporary temper issue that can be changed or if it’s definitely a red flag that you should not ignore. Here are some common questions to ask yourself to look for red flags:
Do you find yourself repeating your emotions, needs, boundaries to this person?
Do you find yourself being the only one that apologizes for everything and fixing the relationship/friendship?
Do you find yourself reanalyzing the situation because that person says you are exaggerating?
Do you find yourself doing things under that persons conditions?
Do you find yourself. being constantly ignored?
Do you find yourself being blamed by that person when things goes wrong?
Do you find yourself noticing that this person refuses to be accountable for their bad behavior?
If you said yes or relate to any of these questions, then these are red flags and this person is showing narcissistic behaviors.
Don’t ignore these red flags - talk to someone and ask for advice elsewhere on how to better your relationship with this person or remove yourself from their life.
I’ve realized that I’ve always had this...I guess you could call it honor inside me. Whatever I am doing, I need it to be honorable. And fun :) It’s kinda mad what kind of risks I am taking sometimes.
going through my old journals as part of therapy homework and i'm reading a section written in the emotional wreckage of a full-on breakdown when i get hit with this line:
There is never a satisfying answer to ‘Why didn’t they love me?’
The story behind my focus on love within is a long story that is made of challenges that I had to overcome. Starting with how I was raised, and I began to push back against all the stereotypes women were accounted for in my culture. This begin when I was told that I had to live a certain way to make my future partner happy. I was put in a bubble of expectations and rules that begin to shape my inner confidence and self-worth values for a certain time. However, those expectations of myself were low and full of uncertainty. It all started when I had my first real experience that pushed me to wake up to my journey. I began to lose myself negatively in my own experiences that I began looking for solutions in desperation. Searching for self-development books to read, searching for articles with answers of why I was feeling bad and listening to podcasts.
I discovered that I want to use my struggles and experiences to help other people. A lot of people take it as what I do is as simple as helping people “feel good” about themselves. I believe it is more than that. That “feel good” prevents unhappiness and uncertainty. It allows you a second chance to begin seeing life in a different perspective that makes you feel valuable.
Everything I say, everything I write about, and everything I advice. It is everything I wished I knew before I made certain choices in my life. But sometimes you need to experience it on your own to come back stronger to win your battles. It all begins when you find yourself truly.
Join me in this journey of finding the love within you.
One of my favorite things: When Charlie just wows people on set with his stunt work prowess whenever he decides to be Daredevil in real life:
"Charlie is an unbelievable physical athlete. We were shooting the scene, and he was like, "Ah this is what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna do a handstand, and I'm going to do press ups on a handstand." He just got up and he just did it, it was like, "What? Wow!" - Marc Jobst, DD S3 director
"Charlie did about 80 percent of the sequence himself...to be able to stay in the moment and emote and be able to actually go through this action sequence with no breaks for 11 and a half, do the highly emotional scene in the middle of it, and then keep going into another action sequence...he's the MVP, without a doubt." - Alex Garcia Lopez, DD S3 director
"At the end of the scene, I was supposed to exit. So I asked them if they could throw a cushion out the window and then, without telling anyone, casually went out that way during one of the takes rather than the door."
"You wouldn't believe how much Charlie actually does. Half the time you see DD flipping, everyone thinks it's me, but it's actually Charlie! He learned how to do a palm spin in a matter of minutes. He also threw a front flip ax kick inside a bus! The guy is amazing." - Chris Brewster, Charlie's stunt double
"When he jumps off the roof in the episode, he did that by himself and shocked everyone. He was like, 'Can I have a little pad?' Then suddenly, he flipped off the roof, and we were all like, 'Did Charlie just do that by himself?' - Kat Coiro, director
"Same thing with Charlie. I mean, he comes in and he wants to do everything. He's a legend, and he's able to come in and learn the fight in a day." - Marc Scizak, stunt coordinator
so rhaenyra starts s3 with a god complex, believing herself to be the prince that was promised from aegon the conqueror's dream... but hugh and ulf will betray her, mysaria will misunderstand her, coryls will undermine her, bartimos will underestimate her, daemon will abandon her, her people will turn against her and burn her castle and kill her dragon. and when everyone who accepted rhaenyra as queen rejects her, the only person left to love rhaenyra will be alicent, who never loved rhaenyra as queen but rhaenyra as a person ("she was the vision that sustained him [...] it was his love for her that kept him resolute in his choice of heir."). alicent, who abandoned her gods and duty to go to rhaenyra on dragonstone and appeal to the person beneath the crown ("i cast myself on the mercy of a friend who once loved me."). alicent, who's made a god of rhaenyra, not as queen, but as the girl she read with beneath the godswood ("come with me.").