Also Saudi Arabia / OPEC selling low to undercut other sources to establish dominance on the market.

I love how people here adore and understand cats. So wholesome.

This might be part of the issue but in reality high self awareness can also lead to excessive overthinking, ruminating, self criticism and hypervigilance. This is mechanics at play that are the root of some people suffering depression. By no means does this mean to become less selfaware rather to become aware of this pattern and recognise these thoughts: become more aware of ones self awareness.

He and what army?

You’re right, teens cannot get a diagnosis for personality disorders as their personality has not fully formed yet. Teenage years and even beyond are the years a person goes through to find themselves who they are in regards to personality. A teenager has little expectations in forming stable relationships and most people in later stages look back at it with some sentimental cringe as they grow in experience. You mentioned to be autistic so you might be aware of how autistic folks behave differently vis-a-vis relationships and social interactions. In many cases this kind of upbringing (it is a neuro developmental condition afterall) leaves the person with some trauma which can manifest in traits that on the surface resemble a personality disorder. I’m thinking here in terms of people pleasing, hyper vigilance, problem with emotional regulation and low self esteem. I’ve said this many times in various other threads: labels do not matter as much as opposed to traits. You seem self aware enough to keep track of those so you can address them in therapy or elsewhere.

Yeah but that dimension hopping thing which I think is referring to quantum tunnelling sounds weird if you put it that way. They’re not balls jumping in and out of existence, rather they are defined by a wave function that map a probability distribution and can appear everywhere where the probability is non-zero. I’m not a physicist so take my explanation with some salt.

Your premises about qualifications and access is right but I disagree with your conclusion. We’re discussing a public figure, one whose heath state is affecting most people’s lives but said state is undisclosed or obfuscated from the public. It is our perogative to speculate political leaders’ state of mind affected by health issues because that is all that is available to us.

Trump signed the MOU in Versailles. Does he know what other agreements were signed there? The irony is probably lost on him. Furthermore, I wonder if he knows what kind of folks have lost their heads in Versailles.

Not my country but my partners.

Paper rivets, maybe?

Interesting, but I think there are very different underlying causes that drive these behaviours. If my hands are wet I can block out the sensation but if only one is wet then my focus keeps shifting to the sensation, as if the imbalance makes it more salient. It is less a habit and more a coping tactic to filter out sensory information.

I know you’re joking but urine should not contain any protein in a healthy body.

If for some reason I get one of my hands wet I then need to get the other one wet aswell. I dislike asymmetries like this. Same with temperatures, I one hand or foot is colder than the other I need to equalise them.

I’m quite curious what you would define as being evil on the inside.

People are not diagnosed unless they engage in a therapeutic relationship with a trained professional, their public status has no bearing on it. I gave the example of Goldwater because it is well known and it is germane to the current top of US government and the apparent reluctance of pundits to calling out the textbook example of mental disorder disguised as policy. As for people in your live I’d say limit yourself in recognising traits rather then conditions. Someone might appear to lack empathy in situations you find yourself interacting with them but unless you have a clear picture of their internal view and all the motivations that drive their behaviour linking it to a diagnosis might be myopic. If everyone would start out out of the norm or jerk behaviour as disorders the labels would start lose their meaning. In the same vain it is to say everyone is a bit autistic or I’m so OCD because I like my room tidy. Also manic is a specific trait usually unrelated to (the lack of) empathy: a mental state brought on by bipolar disorder or abuse of stimulant drugs, etc, just for your information.

Yeah, I get where you’re coming from but this are the limitations of the context of therapy: it is beyond the scope to help others aside from the patient unless that is the intent of the patient but this requires insight and empathy and those are no strengths of a typical narcissist. A propos people in power and personality disorders: there are ethical guidelines preventing mental health specialists to diagnose people with disorders (like the Goldwater rule). In my own opinion we should do away with these guidelines: not educating the public does more social harm vis-a-vis democratic decline then any other implications these guidelines prevent.

It’s a bit more nuanced than able to work == disorder free and I think you know that and are exaggerating. It is true however that the ideology is to not diagnosing a person unless there’s a level of insight. What good does it do to label a narcissist when they don’t suffer from it or suffer from a different condition even if that secondary condition is brought on by narcissism? A diagnosis should help a person and benefit them, not pass moral judgment.

They are harmless per se, however if they appear suddenly they might be an indication of a water leak or humidity to which they’re drawn to. They like to settle on starchy materials: books, wallpaper that sort of stuff.

Just to point out kind is frequently used by proponents of devine/intelligent design pseudoscience to muddy the waters in arguing established biology because terms like species or clade etc refutes their biblical arguments. Not saying that this is what the poster belongs to, it could just be a knowledge gap.

If the unnatural part refers to keeping them in the same area/habitat, and I’m not sure the animals in question would agree with it being disgusting as animals do what animals do.