Whoa! A politician with narcissistic personality disorder?
Two years ago, Blagojevich famously implored voters to ask what his election rival was thinking, and short of putting the governor on a couch, it’s impossible to say what’s in his head. But from what he’s heard, seen and read, Bohlen and others say they believe Blagojevich may have a narcissistic personality disorder.
Bohlen also has other sources of information, namely a daughter who won a post-college fellowship with the state and worked as an advance person during Blagojevich’s first term, arranging hotel rooms and making sure the governor always looked his best.
“She carried around a bottle of hairspray in her purse,†Bohlen said.
Matters of hair aside, there’s usually not much hope for a person with a narcissistic personality disorder, he says.
“The personality is really hard to change,†Bohlen said. “They’re hard to work with. They’re non-compliant. There are impairments to either social or occupational or other types of functioning. They’re easy to make mad, and when they do, they tend to drop out of therapy or counseling. They only come back when they’re hurting again and they need an immediate fix, and they expect you’ll make them well with a pill or something.â€Â
I implore you to ask yourselves: “What am I thinking?”
Matt Damon: “Matt Damon”
Lurch: Lies are bad, m’kay?
NPR: Blago’s a splodeydope, and we are appalled:
The relentless self-distribution by Blagojevich is the latest episode in a great American tradition – a quest for grace via limelight. Self-help meets self-hype. He’s following in a long line of human time bombs  some were found guilty of crimes; others were only accused of or suspected of wrongdoing  that a mesmerized public watch in mouth-agape disbelief.
I must be a sociopath, because I’m laughing.
A politician is full of themselves?
Get out!
That’s what it is: Blago is Edward’s separated-at-birth twin!
If the party isn’t named, it’s Democrat. The media does that to save ink and time. They respect us for our ability to fill in the blanks.
“Can’t I just eat my waffle, guys?”…
“Come on! I just answered, like, 8 questions..!”
“Ahh, see,… I came down here to visit. See this is what happens. I can’t end up visiting with you guys and shaking hands if I’m going to get grilled every time I come down here.”
Was your thinking along these lines Dan?
C’mon, Bob. When it’s The One, it’s self-effacing.
You’re right Dan…
I-I-I don’t know what came over me…
I blame
Boooooosh!RUSH!…Reminds me of when Bill Frist diagnosed Terri Schiavo from 1000 miles away.
Are all psychic doctors Republicans?
Of course they are, snippy.
#7 – Like this:
Jack Fyans, a Springfield psychologist who leans Republican, declined to talk about Blagojevich specifically, but he did allow this: “It seems like the political culture of Illinois is being at least affected, if not influenced, by a slight degree of narcissism.â€Â
Dang, you are working overtime on the stupid today.
Major John, everybody knows that conservatives are overrepresented among the ranks of psychotherapists, so I wouldn’t go there.
#10 – Dan, true – you got me there.
So now Blago is batshit crazy. Hmm.
Seems this is all merely getting us ready for the moment when Blago drops the dime on Rahm and the jug-eared dummy on his knee that speaks in that speaks so inspiringly.
“He said Obama was involved in this? Gasp! We TOLD YOU he was crazy!”
Having alibis in advance is good policy when you are a democrat.
I see your NPD and raise you a Joan of Arc Complex and a Trump Hairspray Compulsive.
Your bet.
Crap “Compulsion.” I’m conservative and not a psychotherapist.
Rushist!
What do you figure, that Big Hollywood has to put up maybe $100.00 to buy an insurance policy to pay off the $100,000.00 to Damon in the unlikely event Damon were to win the debate, all the while getting Kristof to agree to do the debate for travel and expenses? Good stuff if they pull it off.
Of course now that you have admitted and denounced your “Rushism” you are ready to enter into the perfect world of the “Lightworker”. Rejoice, Heaven™ is upon us, here on Gaia.
Do libtards like Joyce Bahar not understand what Blagojevich was saying on the recordings? Are they that stupid.
Yeah yeah, I understand the libtard chorus of “Innocent until proven guilty”, but do they not hear or read what he said?
Whether he is proven to be guilty or not the guy is SLEAZE.
Hey Parsnip, I can diagnose Terri Schiavo from Wisocnsin. Apparently she and Mary Jo Kopechne are “former PEOPLE”…..
Or in text messsage parlance. They are FPF. (FOREVER)
How stupid can a liberal be to bring up Terri Schiavo. Terri Schiavo is SOCIALIZED MEDICINE to come.
“Hey, Pierre! We’ve got another one!”
“That’s the twelfth Napoleon today.”
“But I am Napoleooooooon!!!!!!”
“Suure you are.”
I am Elmer J. Fudd, millionaire. I own a mansion and a yacht.
Just sounds like a lefty to me.
He may be NPD, but I don’t think he is nuts, I think it is just the opposite. The more he plays this up as a witch hunt and kangaroo court, and the more publicity he gets out of it, the harder it is going to be for Fitzgerald to get a criminal conviction it seems to me.
#21 cranky-d:
Can’t be a leftist; the IRS arrested him for failure to pay his taxes.
“I may be scwewy wabbit, but I’m not going to Alcatwaz!”
#22 Christopher Taylor, I meant.
When the personality disorders first made the DSM, there were only three: NPD (narcissistic), BPD (borderline), and HPD (histronic). Now there’s a dozen or so. I’m skeptical of most of them, but there is without a doubt an NPD/BPD personality. I’ve known several, and so have most people. They are not uncommon, and they are incredibly destructive, like psychopaths. http://narcissists-suck.blogspot.com/
I challenge Matt Damon to eat a rug of my choice.
(go on…….go on……..)
It is astounding how corrupt and needy the yankee media is.
Blago hans out bait and they suck it up.
The media is as corrupt as he is.
Just a view: Any animal will fight to the death when feels in danger, correct on this?,….and,we , humans, are the very worst among animals and so , the most dangerous ones,…correct too? Gov Blagojevich is under mighty disturbance, and so, it would be logical to say he will fight to the death, correct on that one too? Humm,….with that said, how about this angle?,…my input on this Gov Blagojevich scenario; I think that the governor should and must try to take down with him (he is going down alright ) ,…try to take down with him AS MANY AS HE POSSIBLY CAN. Number of his suposely ‘friends’ are giving him the back and some even stabbing-back at him. So, is war to the end ,…so logic dictates that he should uncovered all those individuals ( some of them already in Washington in the new administration) name them, so the public will know them for real,…EVEN IF IN THE PROCESS, PRES OBAMA FALLS IN THE MIX TOO,…AFTER ALL HE IS PRODUCT OF THE SAME CHICAGO-CORRUPTED POLILTICAL ATMOSPHERE,…so, should Obama is one of the ones to go down ,…that will not take me for surprise at all !,….AND NOBODY, ABSOLUTELY NOBODY !, SHOULD BE SURPRISED FOR THAT, NEITHER. Well, that is all I have to say about this one issue on Gov Blagojevich, Thanks , for reading. sincerely, Daniel CabreraMerrillville, Indiana
PLEASE LORD BRING ILLINOIS A LEGITIMATE GOVERNMENT.
PLEASE LORD BRING ILLINOIS A LEGITIMATE GOVERNMENT.
There may be some things that not even an omnipotent being can do.
I think Illinois could be given legitimate government, but it would have to be treated like a late Nineteenth-early Twentieth century bananna republic and given a severe application of US Marienes and the ‘Small Wars Manual’.
There may be some things that not even an omnipotent being can do.
It is my understanding he only has dominion over Heaven and Earth, after all.
Blago has a narcissistic personality disorder? Hmm.. Not like he’s the first politician out of Illinois we’ve seen lately with that problem. Perhaps it’s something in the water?
flan, do they have FPD (Fistrionic Personality Disorder, aka Sully Syndrome)?