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03-19-2008, 04:49 PM
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Can pride be an addiction ?
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03-19-2008, 04:51 PM
| | | | Yes.
It's called narcissic personality disorder. You always seek better achievements, boast about them all the time while continuously being unsatisfied.
Not cool, IMO.
EDIT: That is, if you weren't talking about being addicted to a bunch of lions hanging together. |
03-19-2008, 04:57 PM
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03-19-2008, 04:58 PM
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03-19-2008, 07:49 PM
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03-20-2008, 03:13 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Toronto, Canada | | | Addiction? it's more like a culture nowadays. Too many people taking themselves too seriously.
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03-20-2008, 05:07 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Hancock, MD | | | PRIDE is just a bunch of grown men and/or women that are jealous of the natural born fighters of EYC! They should just accept the fact that they missed their chance at greatness, and now they are just too old to do anything about it. No amount of adult play-fighting is gonna make up for their years of laziness, just lying around watching Sesame Street.
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03-20-2008, 05:43 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Bos, MA | | | anything can be addictive in the hands of the right addict.
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03-20-2008, 08:04 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Pacific Northwest | | | Lalabadie said: Yes.
It's called narcissic personality disorder. You always seek better achievements, boast about them all the time while continuously being unsatisfied.
Persoanlly, I disaggree. I think that eagerness and aspiration can be misconstrued as being an addiciton to pride. I'm constantly seeking better achievements personally. Not because I want to boast my accomplishments to peers, not because I want to show my accomplishments to anyone. But I am never satisfied because I want to accomplish so much in the short time that I am given in this life. I want to experience life, I want to study as many topics as I can, I want to pursue interests. And yes...I want to make a lot of money. So I continue to go to school and study and pursue higher degrees so that I will be given more opportunities which means more money and possibly more job satisfaction which means more disposable income to afford things that I want. I see nothing prideful about this.
I personally do not think that pride itself can be the source of an addiciton. Perhaps pride can lead one to addiciton or addictive behavior...but pride itself, in my opinion, cannot be addictive. |
03-20-2008, 08:21 AM
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Originally Posted by casualmadness Lalabadie said: Yes.
It's called narcissic personality disorder. You always seek better achievements, boast about them all the time while continuously being unsatisfied.
Persoanlly, I disaggree. I think that eagerness and aspiration can be misconstrued as being an addiciton to pride. I'm constantly seeking better achievements personally. Not because I want to boast my accomplishments to peers, not because I want to show my accomplishments to anyone. But I am never satisfied because I want to accomplish so much in the short time that I am given in this life. | Oh, this I agree with. I did not want to classify the will to succeed and do our best as a disorder. It's an essential part of life, IMO. I wanted to point out that the exaggeration of this particular personality trait leads to narcissic personality disorder. It is a form of addiction to what depression treatment often refers to as a "narcissic gain". Such gains are essential to mental health, but some people become literally addicted to them. And this addiction can forever prevent you from being as happy as Maki.  |
03-20-2008, 08:25 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: On The Bayou | | | Everyone should have pride in who they are and the ambition to be even better. |
03-20-2008, 09:26 AM
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Originally Posted by Darkstrike Not to Maki. | Yep. I don't have any. So I wouldn't know. |
03-20-2008, 10:52 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: NY, NY | | | I don't think pride is a disease, more like a character defect.
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