shushablay
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Totally agree, that's what gets me, it isn't even good fiction that follows any sort of storyline, but then again, Helen Fielding already wrote Bridget Jones Diary and Candace Owens, Sex and the City. However, I think she may have been told to stop with the obvious BS because now her columns are devoid of, well, everything. Her re-telling of David and The Slope this week is testimony to that, in inasmuch that yes, that (or something like it) probably did happen, but ffs it was really boring first time and hasn't improved with age...a bit like jug ears herself to be honest.
Her new "mental health" trope is really bugging me too, she's trying to mimic what someone with depression may be feeling, but she is way too much of a narcissist to have any empathy or understanding. When she was talking about the futility of having a bath, because putting her poor body(?) through the process, only to have to keep repeating it is nonsense. A person with depression may not look after their personal hygiene as well as they should because of the completely crippling inertia that come with depression. A person can have everything they could possibly want, and still be subject to the horrible black pit of despair. You lose all interest in everything, things that used to make you happy, you just don't care about anymore, and you can genuinely just sit and do nothing, which makes you feel even more inadequate, until you may reach that horrible conclusion that there is just no point in carrying on, that you are a burden, that the world would just be better off without you. Even your closest friends and family can struggle to get through to you, that you are loved and needed.
Sorry but no, you don't have a routine where you watch Love Island and walk your dogs at night (with or without the aforementioned slope) and in doing so think about how, yet another person let you down. No it is quite the opposite, you are the one who feels like they have let everyone down. Ironically, it is all of her own actions that have brought her to where she is today. Unlike someone who is suffering from clinical depression who, haven't done anything to deserve the chemical imbalance in their brain that causes depression. Jones is just a greedy, nasty, narcissist who cannot accept that she's made crappy decisions, and whilst she has a well paid job, an assistant that can be summoned at the drop of a hat, her dogs and a roof over her head, she is still not happy that she hasn't got more, and will forever be the victim, but no, whilst she may well have a form of narcissistic personality disorder, it is difficult to treat, given that there has to be recognition from the patient that it is their own behaviour that causes the issues. Had a quick look at the description and prognosis for NPD diagnoses and it all fits her perfectly, in fact saw this quote and yes, describes Jones to a T.
A "pathological narcissist" for whom the "ego deal" has become "inflated and destructive" and whose "grandiose lies, poor sense of reality, sense of entitlement, and exploitative treatment of others" conspire toward his own demise.
So I'm not sure that she can change, but it still irks me that she can actually make a good living from her negativity and meaness and that the DM enable her in this.
Her new "mental health" trope is really bugging me too, she's trying to mimic what someone with depression may be feeling, but she is way too much of a narcissist to have any empathy or understanding. When she was talking about the futility of having a bath, because putting her poor body(?) through the process, only to have to keep repeating it is nonsense. A person with depression may not look after their personal hygiene as well as they should because of the completely crippling inertia that come with depression. A person can have everything they could possibly want, and still be subject to the horrible black pit of despair. You lose all interest in everything, things that used to make you happy, you just don't care about anymore, and you can genuinely just sit and do nothing, which makes you feel even more inadequate, until you may reach that horrible conclusion that there is just no point in carrying on, that you are a burden, that the world would just be better off without you. Even your closest friends and family can struggle to get through to you, that you are loved and needed.
Sorry but no, you don't have a routine where you watch Love Island and walk your dogs at night (with or without the aforementioned slope) and in doing so think about how, yet another person let you down. No it is quite the opposite, you are the one who feels like they have let everyone down. Ironically, it is all of her own actions that have brought her to where she is today. Unlike someone who is suffering from clinical depression who, haven't done anything to deserve the chemical imbalance in their brain that causes depression. Jones is just a greedy, nasty, narcissist who cannot accept that she's made crappy decisions, and whilst she has a well paid job, an assistant that can be summoned at the drop of a hat, her dogs and a roof over her head, she is still not happy that she hasn't got more, and will forever be the victim, but no, whilst she may well have a form of narcissistic personality disorder, it is difficult to treat, given that there has to be recognition from the patient that it is their own behaviour that causes the issues. Had a quick look at the description and prognosis for NPD diagnoses and it all fits her perfectly, in fact saw this quote and yes, describes Jones to a T.
A "pathological narcissist" for whom the "ego deal" has become "inflated and destructive" and whose "grandiose lies, poor sense of reality, sense of entitlement, and exploitative treatment of others" conspire toward his own demise.
So I'm not sure that she can change, but it still irks me that she can actually make a good living from her negativity and meaness and that the DM enable her in this.
