Allow me to express a few thoughts of my own: The only thing that every person should adhere to - regardless of whether they are mentally healthy or ill - is: Don't deliberately hurt other people, whether consciously or unconsciously. Don't use other people because it hurts them. Period. I suspect this is the only approach a false self can really work with. It needs to LEARN to be mindful - not in terms of narcissistic supply (wanting to have), but in terms of giving. Letting go of narcissistic supply would jeopardize the false self, but not eliminate it. It would be like a realignment of the false self - away from the defense of autocracy towards to the defense of community... but without becoming a communal narcissist 😎 Again, it would be pretending to be a real self - but without hurting anyone in the process. It would be narcissistic supply from the inside, not from the outside - the validation of grandiosity would therefore lie in successfully not hurting anyone. Of course, the false self should not brag about this - this is exactly what needs to be learned. Grandiosity proves itself through humility, not haughtiness. I think that a false self - just like a real self - can and should learn this. Nature doesn't brag about serving the community either. It simply does - because it's part of the whole. And here is the irony: a false self tries to replace the “whole” (community) with autocracy - but is dependent on the community to validate its existence. The false self is like air that wants to turn into snow crystals in order to finally experience substance and community. Even our own body is based on community. Every cell MUST be able to cooperate with other cells in order for the body to exist at all. When one cell takes over and uses other cells to do so, it is called mutation or cancer - and we know how that ends
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cLuStEr B MiLkShAkE
Well, look at that! Now I just have to get famous so I can afford treatment to be "born again"! Lol
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