One sign of NT comorbidity is feeling that you will earn your heavenly reward by obliterating everything that does not live up to God's perfect specifications. Visualize Smallville's Lex Luthor as president of the United States looking round him with that funny grin of his and seeing nothing but devastation and dead people all around him. That picture is in one of the first season episodes, the one where he and Clark both get readings by a psychic at a nursing home.
This aspect of comorbidity is being unable to see where the point of diminishing returns is, where the end of effective effort lies, where you are in danger of destroying the entire pearl while trying to rid it of a blemish whose effect was to make the pearl more interesting and appealing to look at. This kind of dysfunctional thinking may be what characterizes the NT personality more than anything else. It is blind perfectionism that destroys the capacity for insight, that is so obsessive that insight is seen as a crime by these people. This thing literally yanks people's heads away from that point where they actually start to see something.
15 Nov 2005, 12:31 am
