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Bisan unhon pa, di ton
mag-utro…Sakto man sila pirme! Do you think those with
controlling attitudes will reflect and change? That could be impossible!
Self-righteousness
stems from a personality disorder, such as Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
People who suffer from this illness tend to feel that their opinions, ethics,
or views are always correct. Generally, they won’t make an attempt to listen or
understand the views of another person (Conor, 2021).
You
notice that these persons seem to control all things around them – their need
to “have a say” on everything is so intense they often do not understand that
there are things others prepared for; That there are things of which others are
emotionally-attached. They would say: What a waste of time!
Spiritual
teacher Eckhart Tolle goes as far as to describe the need to be right as a form
of violence. At its mildest, it is inflexibility. At its height, it manifests
as dominance. The compulsion to inflict our opinions of the world on another
originates in fear. Its opposites are humility and compassion.
A
dominant personality is a personality type that often leads themselves and
others into action. It’s primarily defined by an overarching motivation for
power and a sense of pride.
Gilette
(2022) posits that dominance across many species is often associated with
patterns of behaviors that involve intimidation, coercion, and aggression.
These
types of personalities tend to dominate the people around them. They do not
care about the feelings they may hurt since they are incapable of empathizing.
According
to Dr. Nereida Gonzalez-Berrios, a board certified psychiatrist out of Houston, “As far as empathy and compassion are
concerned, it is usually less than others,” she says. “They do not like to
follow but prefer to lead.”
Organizations
are full of these types. That is the main reason why there are those who prefer
to leave their jobs than become a person suffering from a toxic environment.
Abusive
behaviors in a relationship, which are always about power and control, can be
signs of a mental health condition and not only a personality type.
A
2012 review from the National Library of Medicine into dominance behavior found
dominant personality traits often overlapped with mania and narcissism.
So,
communicating these to the culprit can be an exercise in futility. A medical
intervention is needed.
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