Is it possible to not secretly think of yourself as superior to others without spiraling into depression if you do not?

Is it possible to not secretly think of yourself as superior to others without spiraling into depression if you do not?

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psychologists agree that a certain dose of narcissism is present in well adjusted individuals

not necessarily that one is """"""superior"""""", but the belief that one is special in some way, capable, and possesses a sense of optimism about his or her future.


those with too much narcissism exploit others, and those with too little, as you have said, experience depression and fatalism

>a sense of optimism
How can superior people think that now that we live in times that have the masses murdering all superior people if they find them?

I have no idea what you're talking about...


But a sense of optimism is necessary to pursue a goal which requires delaying gratification. People who expect themselves to fail don't make the effort to achieve great things. One could argue that a sense of discipline could replace the optimism, which is true in the sense of achieving a goal but may not stabilize one's mood as optimism would.

How many books do I have to read before i can get a gf like this

Egalitarianism, socialism, capitalism, industrialization all desire the death of the individual and the hierarchy. Categorical differences among human beings is seen as a horror.
It last happened in Libya, it was attempted in Syria, it will be attempted in Russia. It started in the French revolution.

WHY?! WHY MUST YOU TORMENT ME SO WITH THESE JEZEBELS? My one single wish is to be left to my own asexual devices, free from the thorned grip of perverse tempation, unclouded or swayed in my noble search for intellectual playthings of the mind, yet by your hand I am endlessly titillated by these vixens with their prodigious hips and provocative figures. Can I never satiate this thirst, will I ever know the touch of a woman and enter between her loins? Will these hands ever feel a woman's swaying weight in their open palms? Will I ever know a plump, ruby pair of lips perched betwixt my shoulder and my ear, whispering "I want you, I want you now" in that chocolatey croon I know so well from dreamtime? Will my seed ever drip from her moistened hole, indicating the completed unity of our unhinged sexual impulses?

Life is a constant hell. Day in and out the tired red eyes glaze in some attempt to shield me from these images. I am floating in the blistering heat of my id's vacuum, castrated and blinded by my wretched libido. No wonder I resent women so.

Consider the fact that it is on the Internet. I'd say 0 is the maximum.

FUCK OFF TEL SCUM fucking subhuman

I don't see the reason for the distinction you're making. We're social creatures and there's implicit and explicit standards we all understand and against which we all measure ourselves and others.

I'm better than him because I'm not a racist, and he is. I'm better than him because I read this book and he hasn't, because I inferred something and he did not, because whereas he loses his temper, I do not, whereas he missed that pun, I did, and so on.

There's a scale against which one's measuring oneself against all others in all these thoughts, that racism is substandard, that being well-read is outstanding, and so on, and one's standing is gauged against that norm, and the norm itself is gauged against how many people can live up to and surpass it.

Get back to your cuck shed and read the thesaurus some more.

Has it ever been considered that narcissism is perhaps a survival mechanism?

Take for example a form of narcissism: overestimating your own abilities. This is especially prevalent with regard to combative abilities. I used to work somewhere that involved my getting into constant physical altercations with people, and we would frequently see people who obviously didn't train physically, who were not physically imposing, and who probably had no experience fighting who would still become aggressive and act like they could hold their own. (I'm a fairly big person, but the amount of times I probably lost count of the times that men half my size tried to get physically aggressive with me. This violates a primary understanding that most people with fighting experience realize: size is a very important component; if it wasn't then fighting sports wouldn't be divided into groups varying by ~10lbs from category to category.) In terms of physical aggressiveness this overestimation of ability could potentially be useful because if someone is marking you as prey and you're aggressive (even if you aren't necessarily strong or good at fighting) the predator may just go after someone who seems more timid instead of bothering with you, even if you are actually weak. In this sense, people who overestimate their ability (but are actually weak) would fare better than people who are timid but whose physical ability is identical to the person who makes an overt display of aggressiveness. Over time (because of survival) we could potentially see more of the former in society due to their type dying less.

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What backwards world do you live in?

If you actually thought yourself superior to others you wouldn't be a depressed redditor faggot. You would be happy at how simple and worthless everyone is.

>narcissistic
>still depressed
>want to hero because I love myself too much to suffer

I btfo psychodocs so often I could start an artsy IG where I share sad pics with the occasional red rose or bad bitch

That bitch is probably a normie faggot who hasn't read a book in years amirite

Real intellectuals know they aren't superior and feel superior because of that knowledge.

>reads neetshit once

My therapist once told me that people with too much self consciousness are obviously not well adjusted but on the other end people with no self consciousness end up in jail. That resonated with me. Like most things in life you must strike a balance.

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Life has its ups and downs

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