NCTimes Article – Murrietta family loses home

[eavesdropper]

Allan, I think your “armchair” diagnosis is spot-on. I’d venture to say that when you open up the DSM-IV, they’ve got Lisa’s headshot beside the description/criteria of “narcissistic personality disorder”.

The really scary thing is that, based on the way a lot of parents are “raising” their spawn these days, we have a lot of Lisa clones to look forward to in the future. Possible etiological factors in NPD?
–Overindulgence and overvaluation by parents
–Valued by parents as a means to regulate their own self-esteem
–Excessive admiration that is never balanced with realistic feedback
–Unpredictable or unreliable caregiving from parents
–Severe emotional abuse in childhood
–Being praised for perceived exceptional looks or talents by adults
–Excessive praise for good behaviors in childhood

These are the kids to whom we are passing along massive national debt, plus responsibility for the aging Baby Boomers (myself included)? It doesn’t look like a pleasant retirement’s in my future. Or, for that matter, any form of retirement. Aside from the obligatory dirt nap, of course.

Had to laugh at your Obama fireside scenario, and chose number 2 as to Lisa’s state of mind (although I believe that Lisa’s cheese has been in short supply for a long time). Unfortunately, I think that there is monumental overcrowding in that shallow gene pool. Let’s face it: when a nation’s perception of how things work in the world is based largely on today’s ceaseless diet of “reality” television, and critical thinking is virtually extinct, the “fireside” scenario doesn’t seem so improbable. I know that I’ve cleared my calendar so as to be available for the live televised coverage of Lisa receiving the 11th hour phone call from the White House while Rahm Emanuel and Tim Geithner are outside her front door with balloons and an oversized cardboard check.

[ucodegen]

Allan, I think your “armchair” diagnosis is spot-on. I’d venture to say that when you open up the DSM-IV, they’ve got Lisa’s headshot beside the description/criteria of “narcissistic personality disorder”.

I thought Casey Serin had that page locked up.. ;-P

It concerns me that I can think of at least 3 people who accurately fit the NPD format without even trying. This country is heading for a very rude awakening.

[ucodegen]

Allan, I think your “armchair” diagnosis is spot-on. I’d venture to say that when you open up the DSM-IV, they’ve got Lisa’s headshot beside the description/criteria of “narcissistic personality disorder”.

I thought Casey Serin had that page locked up.. ;-P

It concerns me that I can think of at least 3 people who accurately fit the NPD format without even trying. This country is heading for a very rude awakening.

[ucodegen]

Allan, I think your “armchair” diagnosis is spot-on. I’d venture to say that when you open up the DSM-IV, they’ve got Lisa’s headshot beside the description/criteria of “narcissistic personality disorder”.

I thought Casey Serin had that page locked up.. ;-P

It concerns me that I can think of at least 3 people who accurately fit the NPD format without even trying. This country is heading for a very rude awakening.

[ucodegen]

Allan, I think your “armchair” diagnosis is spot-on. I’d venture to say that when you open up the DSM-IV, they’ve got Lisa’s headshot beside the description/criteria of “narcissistic personality disorder”.

I thought Casey Serin had that page locked up.. ;-P

It concerns me that I can think of at least 3 people who accurately fit the NPD format without even trying. This country is heading for a very rude awakening.

[ucodegen]

Allan, I think your “armchair” diagnosis is spot-on. I’d venture to say that when you open up the DSM-IV, they’ve got Lisa’s headshot beside the description/criteria of “narcissistic personality disorder”.

I thought Casey Serin had that page locked up.. ;-P

It concerns me that I can think of at least 3 people who accurately fit the NPD format without even trying. This country is heading for a very rude awakening.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

[quote=eavesdropper] I know that I’ve cleared my calendar so as to be available for the live televised coverage of Lisa receiving the 11th hour phone call from the White House while Rahm Emanuel and Tim Geithner are outside her front door with balloons and an oversized cardboard check.[/quote]

Just about blew Coke Zero out my nose on that one! That is a great mental picture.

I’ve coached youth football for several years now, and I’ll tell you that you are right on the money when it comes to a lot of these parents/families. I also coached a year of T-Ball when my son was 6, and I remember parents coming up and asking if their son had what it took to play Major League Baseball. Unfortunately, the question was seriously posed.

I’ve seen moms and dads who obsessively biograph their child’s youth football “career” through video and photos and I don’t mean just shooting the game with a camcorder. They keep their child’s stats, shoot multiple angles of a game (this is where mom and dad each have a camcorder and shoot from different sides of the field) and literally document every aspect of his performance. There is a method to the madness, though, as explained to me by one 7th grader’s mom: She wanted her son to go to a good Division 1 university, like Michigan, Cal or Ohio State, and was preparing “scouting material”. The kid in question would’ve had a hard time hitting water falling out of a boat, but mom was convinced he was the next Peyton Manning.

At some point, like with Lisa and her spawn, you cross over into the Twilight Zone. She is totally oblivious to what we here would call “reality” and probably does believe that Obama will hear her cries of help and come to her aid.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

[quote=eavesdropper] I know that I’ve cleared my calendar so as to be available for the live televised coverage of Lisa receiving the 11th hour phone call from the White House while Rahm Emanuel and Tim Geithner are outside her front door with balloons and an oversized cardboard check.[/quote]

Just about blew Coke Zero out my nose on that one! That is a great mental picture.

I’ve coached youth football for several years now, and I’ll tell you that you are right on the money when it comes to a lot of these parents/families. I also coached a year of T-Ball when my son was 6, and I remember parents coming up and asking if their son had what it took to play Major League Baseball. Unfortunately, the question was seriously posed.

I’ve seen moms and dads who obsessively biograph their child’s youth football “career” through video and photos and I don’t mean just shooting the game with a camcorder. They keep their child’s stats, shoot multiple angles of a game (this is where mom and dad each have a camcorder and shoot from different sides of the field) and literally document every aspect of his performance. There is a method to the madness, though, as explained to me by one 7th grader’s mom: She wanted her son to go to a good Division 1 university, like Michigan, Cal or Ohio State, and was preparing “scouting material”. The kid in question would’ve had a hard time hitting water falling out of a boat, but mom was convinced he was the next Peyton Manning.

At some point, like with Lisa and her spawn, you cross over into the Twilight Zone. She is totally oblivious to what we here would call “reality” and probably does believe that Obama will hear her cries of help and come to her aid.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

[quote=eavesdropper] I know that I’ve cleared my calendar so as to be available for the live televised coverage of Lisa receiving the 11th hour phone call from the White House while Rahm Emanuel and Tim Geithner are outside her front door with balloons and an oversized cardboard check.[/quote]

Just about blew Coke Zero out my nose on that one! That is a great mental picture.

I’ve coached youth football for several years now, and I’ll tell you that you are right on the money when it comes to a lot of these parents/families. I also coached a year of T-Ball when my son was 6, and I remember parents coming up and asking if their son had what it took to play Major League Baseball. Unfortunately, the question was seriously posed.

I’ve seen moms and dads who obsessively biograph their child’s youth football “career” through video and photos and I don’t mean just shooting the game with a camcorder. They keep their child’s stats, shoot multiple angles of a game (this is where mom and dad each have a camcorder and shoot from different sides of the field) and literally document every aspect of his performance. There is a method to the madness, though, as explained to me by one 7th grader’s mom: She wanted her son to go to a good Division 1 university, like Michigan, Cal or Ohio State, and was preparing “scouting material”. The kid in question would’ve had a hard time hitting water falling out of a boat, but mom was convinced he was the next Peyton Manning.

At some point, like with Lisa and her spawn, you cross over into the Twilight Zone. She is totally oblivious to what we here would call “reality” and probably does believe that Obama will hear her cries of help and come to her aid.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

[quote=eavesdropper] I know that I’ve cleared my calendar so as to be available for the live televised coverage of Lisa receiving the 11th hour phone call from the White House while Rahm Emanuel and Tim Geithner are outside her front door with balloons and an oversized cardboard check.[/quote]

Just about blew Coke Zero out my nose on that one! That is a great mental picture.

I’ve coached youth football for several years now, and I’ll tell you that you are right on the money when it comes to a lot of these parents/families. I also coached a year of T-Ball when my son was 6, and I remember parents coming up and asking if their son had what it took to play Major League Baseball. Unfortunately, the question was seriously posed.

I’ve seen moms and dads who obsessively biograph their child’s youth football “career” through video and photos and I don’t mean just shooting the game with a camcorder. They keep their child’s stats, shoot multiple angles of a game (this is where mom and dad each have a camcorder and shoot from different sides of the field) and literally document every aspect of his performance. There is a method to the madness, though, as explained to me by one 7th grader’s mom: She wanted her son to go to a good Division 1 university, like Michigan, Cal or Ohio State, and was preparing “scouting material”. The kid in question would’ve had a hard time hitting water falling out of a boat, but mom was convinced he was the next Peyton Manning.

At some point, like with Lisa and her spawn, you cross over into the Twilight Zone. She is totally oblivious to what we here would call “reality” and probably does believe that Obama will hear her cries of help and come to her aid.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

[quote=eavesdropper] I know that I’ve cleared my calendar so as to be available for the live televised coverage of Lisa receiving the 11th hour phone call from the White House while Rahm Emanuel and Tim Geithner are outside her front door with balloons and an oversized cardboard check.[/quote]

Just about blew Coke Zero out my nose on that one! That is a great mental picture.

I’ve coached youth football for several years now, and I’ll tell you that you are right on the money when it comes to a lot of these parents/families. I also coached a year of T-Ball when my son was 6, and I remember parents coming up and asking if their son had what it took to play Major League Baseball. Unfortunately, the question was seriously posed.

I’ve seen moms and dads who obsessively biograph their child’s youth football “career” through video and photos and I don’t mean just shooting the game with a camcorder. They keep their child’s stats, shoot multiple angles of a game (this is where mom and dad each have a camcorder and shoot from different sides of the field) and literally document every aspect of his performance. There is a method to the madness, though, as explained to me by one 7th grader’s mom: She wanted her son to go to a good Division 1 university, like Michigan, Cal or Ohio State, and was preparing “scouting material”. The kid in question would’ve had a hard time hitting water falling out of a boat, but mom was convinced he was the next Peyton Manning.

At some point, like with Lisa and her spawn, you cross over into the Twilight Zone. She is totally oblivious to what we here would call “reality” and probably does believe that Obama will hear her cries of help and come to her aid.

[CDMA ENG]

Who the hell keeps a DSM IV around?!? Is your dating situation that bad that you have to find out in advance that your interest is nuts (hint they/we all are)? 😛

I didnt take the DSM IV to establish that she is a narcisist.

I believe in the last sentences of her manifesto it tells you that it is HER home though she still owes hundred of thousand of dollars on it.

Isn’t that the same thing we hear over and over from these people?

Word up,

CE

[CDMA ENG]

Who the hell keeps a DSM IV around?!? Is your dating situation that bad that you have to find out in advance that your interest is nuts (hint they/we all are)? 😛

I didnt take the DSM IV to establish that she is a narcisist.

I believe in the last sentences of her manifesto it tells you that it is HER home though she still owes hundred of thousand of dollars on it.

Isn’t that the same thing we hear over and over from these people?

Word up,

CE

[CDMA ENG]

Who the hell keeps a DSM IV around?!? Is your dating situation that bad that you have to find out in advance that your interest is nuts (hint they/we all are)? 😛

I didnt take the DSM IV to establish that she is a narcisist.

I believe in the last sentences of her manifesto it tells you that it is HER home though she still owes hundred of thousand of dollars on it.

Isn’t that the same thing we hear over and over from these people?

Word up,

CE

[CDMA ENG]

Who the hell keeps a DSM IV around?!? Is your dating situation that bad that you have to find out in advance that your interest is nuts (hint they/we all are)? 😛

I didnt take the DSM IV to establish that she is a narcisist.

I believe in the last sentences of her manifesto it tells you that it is HER home though she still owes hundred of thousand of dollars on it.

Isn’t that the same thing we hear over and over from these people?

Word up,

CE

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