Inc.Com Oh Brother!!!

[Guest guest]

Hi All,

Oh Man! Listen to this podcast from Inc.Com, "the daily resource for entrepreneurs".

Guess you all can fold up shop now. Your services are no longer needed. Turns out, all of this illness from a poor indoor environment is just because people have bad bosses.

Gee, what were you all thinking when you have been spending so much time and energy trying to correct buildings with poor indoor air quality?

http://www.inc.com/podcasts/inside-the-issue/inside022-2006-09-12.html

Sharon

[Guest guest]

Quackadillian,

Interesting concept. So are you saying sick building syndrome is indeed caused by a psychological disorder?.....of the one who refuses fix the air quality of the building! I like that interpretation. That's funny.

Sharon

Sharon, thank you for pointing out this incredible example of denial out..Hey, here's a thought.. Bad bosses are the same kinds of bosses who would be more likely to force 'their' employees to work in unhealthy environments, i.e. not fix water leaks, not care about things like fresh air for workers, buy the very cheapest office supplies and cleaning supplies (which coincidentally, might also be the least healthy for them, etc.) Some bad bosses might even derive pleasure from seeing them suffer. Just look at 'bad landlords' .... (who really DO exist..) I think that there is an explanation for why MANY 'bad bosses' behave that way and its called narcissistic personality disorder.. (NPD)Look it up. A huge amount of the sorrow and pain on this planet is because of people with this disorder.. IMO. And its not uncommon, although the average person with NPD would also be the last person to ever admit anything was wrong with them.. (that is one of the indicators of NPD, an inability to ever admit your own mistakes) But having a bad boss can and will make you sick. But its a different kind of sick than sick building syndrome, it's from stress.Most of us will just pack up and leave when we are in a situation like that, but for some people, for example, people who are waiting to be eligible for a pension, or people who need health insurance and don't think that another job would give them the benefits they need, are often in a really bad situation because they risk personal disaster by leaving and they also are in a bad situatio by staying. But thats not SBS. Its n emotionally toxic situation, not a physically toxic one. But the two can often occur side by side and its not coincidental. Abusers seek out victims. That is a sick situation, but it exists.Look at the way toxic air or water pollution sources are disproportionally represented in poor communities. Look at how abusive men seek out emotionally or physically dependent women. (Often women with children!)Look at the terrible dynamics of some situations, like the situations of people held prisoner by terrorists or cults.. One could even see that kind of sadistic dynamic at work in politics.. Often.

[Guest guest]

Sharon, thank you for pointing out this incredible example of denial out..Hey, here's a thought.. Bad bosses are the same kinds of bosses who would be more likely to force 'their' employees to work in unhealthy environments, i.e. not fix water leaks, not care about things like fresh air for workers, buy the very cheapest office supplies and cleaning supplies (which coincidentally, might also be the least healthy for them, etc.) Some bad bosses might even derive pleasure from seeing them suffer. Just look at 'bad landlords' .... (who really DO exist..) I think that there is an explanation for why MANY 'bad bosses' behave that way and its called narcissistic personality disorder.. (NPD)Look it up. A huge amount of the sorrow and pain on this planet is because of people with this disorder.. IMO. And its not uncommon, although the average person with NPD would also be the last person to ever admit anything was wrong with them.. (that is one of the indicators of NPD, an inability to ever admit your own mistakes)

But having a bad boss can and will make you sick. But its a different kind of sick than sick building syndrome, it's from stress.Most of us will just pack up and leave when we are in a situation like that, but for some people, for example, people who are waiting to be eligible for a pension, or people who need health insurance and don't think that another job would give them the benefits they need, are often in a really bad situation because they risk personal disaster by leaving and they also are in a bad situatio by staying. But thats not SBS. Its n emotionally toxic situation, not a physically toxic one.

But the two can often occur side by side and its not coincidental. Abusers seek out victims. That is a sick situation, but it exists.Look at the way toxic air or water pollution sources are disproportionally represented in poor communities.

Look at how abusive men seek out emotionally or physically dependent women. (Often women with children!)Look at the terrible dynamics of some situations, like the situations of people held prisoner by terrorists or cults..

One could even see that kind of sadistic dynamic at work in politics.. Often.On 11/22/06, snk1955@...

wrote:

Hi All,

Oh Man! Listen to this podcast from Inc.Com, " the daily resource for entrepreneurs " .

Guess you all can fold up shop now. Your services are no longer needed. Turns out, all of this illness from a poor indoor environment is just because people have bad bosses.

Gee, what were you all thinking when you have been spending so much time and energy trying to correct buildings with poor indoor air quality?

http://www.inc.com/podcasts/inside-the-issue/inside022-2006-09-12.html

Sharon

[Guest guest]

Don't doubt yourself. It was very good. You just need to edit it down.

[Guest guest]

Well, Sharon,That's not exactly what I said. But I don't think that many of those people are worthy of the kind of benefit of the doubt that society often gives them. Society is based on positive and needfully trusting assumptions that you can't make with certain very sick people. I've learned that the hard way. Once you learn it, you never unlearn it.

UNFORTUNATELY.See this web page:http://www.halcyon.com/jmashmun/npd/index.htmlLets put it this way. Stability in early childhood life is VERY important to our future as the human race.

We are evolving all the time, and some people are ahead of the curve, while other people are trapped back in the pre-enlightenment Dark Ages, emotionally. Its like they are adults with the moral reasoning of a six year old.

But they hide it VERY well. And if you appear to be figuring out their dark secret, they will attack you.Have you ever seen " The Bad Seed " ? or " Gone With The Wind " ? or a zillion other movies that depict classic narcissists in film?

Quackadillian,

Interesting concept. So are you saying sick building syndrome is indeed caused by a psychological disorder?.....of the one who refuses fix the air quality of the building! I like that interpretation. That's funny.

Sharon

Sharon, thank you for pointing out this incredible example of denial out..Hey, here's a thought.. Bad bosses are the same kinds of bosses who would be more likely to force 'their' employees to work in unhealthy environments, i.e. not fix water leaks, not care about things like fresh air for workers, buy the very cheapest office supplies and cleaning supplies (which coincidentally, might also be the least healthy for them, etc.) Some bad bosses might even derive pleasure from seeing them suffer. Just look at 'bad landlords' .... (who really DO exist..) I think that there is an explanation for why MANY 'bad bosses' behave that way and its called narcissistic personality disorder.. (NPD)Look it up. A huge amount of the sorrow and pain on this planet is because of people with this disorder.. IMO. And its not uncommon, although the average person with NPD would also be the last person to ever admit anything was wrong with them.. (that is one of the indicators of NPD, an inability to ever admit your own mistakes) But having a bad boss can and will make you sick. But its a different kind of sick than sick building syndrome, it's from stress.Most of us will just pack up and leave when we are in a situation like that, but for some people, for example, people who are waiting to be eligible for a pension, or people who need health insurance and don't think that another job would give them the benefits they need, are often in a really bad situation because they risk personal disaster by leaving and they also are in a bad situatio by staying. But thats not SBS. Its n emotionally toxic situation, not a physically toxic one. But the two can often occur side by side and its not coincidental. Abusers seek out victims. That is a sick situation, but it exists.Look at the way toxic air or water pollution sources are disproportionally represented in poor communities. Look at how abusive men seek out emotionally or physically dependent women. (Often women with children!)Look at the terrible dynamics of some situations, like the situations of people held prisoner by terrorists or cults.. One could even see that kind of sadistic dynamic at work in politics.. Often.

[Guest guest]

I should just post the diagnostic criteria here, and save people some time.

No, I don't think SBS is 'caused by' mentally disordered individuals

necessarily. Often its caused by poverty, or caused by illness.. say

someone is too sick to maintain a property because they are weak.. or

its caused by a disintegration in a society, say like what happened in

Wiemar Germany in the years before Hitler came to power or the decline

and fall of the Roman Empire, etc. They don't call it societal 'decay'

for nothing.. This decay is caused by a disintegration of the social

compact.. in our case, you could make an argument for there being a

'New Deal' of sorts between business, the people, and government that

was established during the Great Depression and which kept us from

violent revolution.. That " New Deal' sustained us through the postwar

years, when the US was the only industrialized country that had not

been destroyed by the battle with fascism. (Of course those years were

boom years for us)

But now, in the changing economic climate, the rulers find the

agreements that they made then, under thr pressure of impending social

chaos, to be too expensive, and the need for workers to man the

factories and soldiers to fight the wars is not so great because

cheaper labor is available overseas and factories and other industries

are increasingly automated, and even wars will soon be fought by

robots and other machines..

......

What is a personality disorder?

[from Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th

edition, 1994, commonly referred to as DSM-IV, of the American

Psychiatric Association. European countries use the diagnostic

criteria of the World Health Organization.]

An enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that deviates

markedly from the expectation of the individual's culture, is

pervasive and inflexible, has an onset in adolescence or early

adulthood, is stable over time, and leads to distress or impairment.

A personality disorder is a pattern of deviant or abnormal behavior

that the person doesn't change even though it causes emotional upsets

and trouble with other people at work and in personal relationships.

It is not limited to episodes of mental illness, and it is not caused

by drug or alcohol use, head injury, or illness. There are about a

dozen different behavior patterns classified as personality disorders

by DSM-IV. All the personality disorders show up as deviations from

normal in one or more of the following:

(1) cognition -- i.e., perception, thinking, and interpretation of

oneself, other people, and events;

(2) affectivity -- i.e., emotional responses (range, intensity,

lability, appropriateness);

(3) interpersonal functions;

(4) impulsivity.

Narcissistic Personality Disorder

While grandiosity is the diagnostic hallmark of pathological

narcissism, there is research evidence that pathological narcissism

occurs in two forms, (a) a grandiose state of mind in young adults

that can be corrected by life experiences, and ( the stable disorder

described in DSM-IV, which is defined less by grandiosity than by

severely disturbed interpersonal relations.

The preferred theory seems to be that narcissism is caused by

very early affective deprivation, yet the clinical material tends to

describe narcissists as unwilling rather than unable, thus treating

narcissistic behaviors as volitional -- that is, narcissism is termed

a personality disorder, but it tends to be discussed as a character

disorder. This distinction is important to prognosis and treatment

possibilities. If NPD is caused by infantile damage and consequent

developmental short-circuits, it probably represents an irremediable

condition. On the other hand, if narcissism is a behavior pattern

that's learned, then there is some hope, however tenuous, that it's a

behavior pattern that can be unlearned. The clinical literature on NPD

is highly theoretical, abstract, and general, with sparse case

material, suggesting that clinical writers have little experience with

narcissism in the flesh. There are several reasons for this to be so:

-- The incidence of NPD is estimated at 1% in the general population,

though I haven't been able to discover the basis of this estimate.

-- Narcissists rarely enter treatment and, once in treatment, progress

very slowly. We're talking about two or more years of frequent

sessions before the narcissist can acknowledge even that the therapist

is sometimes helpful. It's difficult to keep narcissists in treatment

long enough for improvement to be made -- and few people, narcissists

or not, have the motivation or the money to pursue treatment that

produces so little so late.

-- Because of the influence of third-party payers (insurance

companies), there has been a strong trend towards short-term therapy

that concentrates on ameliorating acute troubles, such as depression,

rather than delving into underlying chronic problems. Narcissists are

very reluctant to open up and trust, so it's possible that their NPD

is not even recognized by therapists in short-term treatment. Purely

anecdotal evidence from correspondents and from observations of people

I know indicates that selective serotonin-reuptake inhibitors, such as

Prozac, aggravate narcissists' grandiosity and lack of social

inhibition. It has also been suggested that self-help literature about

bolstering self-esteem and getting what you want out of life or that

encourages the feeling of victimization has aggravating effects on NPD

thinking and behavior.

-- Most clinical writers seem unaware that narcissists' self-reports

are unreliable. This is troubling, considering that lying is the most

common complaint about narcissists and that, in many instances,

defects of empathy lead narcissists to wildly inaccurate

misinterpretations of other people's speech and actions, so that they

may believe that they are liked and respected despite a history of

callous and exploitative personal interactions.

[from Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th

edition, 1994, commonly referred to as DSM-IV, of the American

Psychiatric Association. European countries use the diagnostic

criteria of the World Health Organization.]

A pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for

admiration, and lack of empathy.[jma: NPD first appeared in DSM-III in

1980; before that time there had been no formal diagnostic

description. Additionally, there is considerable overlap between

personality disorders and clinicians tend to diagnose mixes of two or

more. Grandiosity is a special case, but lack of empathy and

exploitative interpersonal relations are not unique to NPD, nor is the

need to be seen as special or unique. The differential diagnosis of

NPD is made on the absence of specific gross behaviors. Borderline

Personality Disorder has several conspicuous similarities to NPD, but

BPD is characterized by self-injury and threatened or attempted

suicide, whereas narcissists are rarely self-harming in this way. BPD

may include psychotic breaks, and these are uncharacteristic of NPD

but not unknown. The need for constant attention is also found in

Histrionic Personality Disorder, but HPD and BPD are both strongly

oriented towards relationships, whereas NPD is characterized by

aloofness and avoidance of intimacy. Grandiosity is unique to NPD

among personality disorders, but it is found in other psychiatric

illnesses. Psychopaths display pathological narcissism, including

grandiosity, but psychopathy is differentiated from NPD by

psychopaths' willingness to use physical violence to get what they

want, whereas narcissists rarely commit crimes; the narcissists I've

known personally are, in fact, averse to physical contact with others,

though they will occasionally strike out in an impulse of rage. It has

been found that court-ordered psychotherapy for psychopaths actually

increases their recidivism rate; apparently treatment teaches

psychopaths new ways to exploit other people. Bipolar illness also

contains strong elements of grandiosity. See more on grandiosity and

empathy and its lack below.]The disorder begins by early adulthood and

is indicated by at least five of the following:

Translation: Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) is a pattern of

self-centered or egotistical behavior that shows up in thinking and

behavior in a lot of different situations and activities. People with

NPD won't (or can't) change their behavior even when it causes

problems at work or when other people complain about the way they act,

or when their behavior causes a lot of emotional distress to others

(or themselves? none of my narcissists ever admit to being distressed

by their own behavior -- they always blame other people for any

problems). This pattern of self-centered or egotistical behavior is

not caused by current drug or alcohol use, head injury, acute

psychotic episodes, or any other illness, but has been going on

steadily at least since adolescence or early adulthood.

NPD interferes with people's functioning in their occupations and

in their relationships:

Mild impairment when self-centered or egotistical behavior results in

occasional minor problems, but the person is generally doing pretty

well.

Moderate impairment when self-centered or egotistical behavior results

in: (a) missing days from work, household duties, or school, (

significant performance problems as a wage-earner, homemaker, or

student, © frequently avoiding or alienating friends, (d)

significant risk of harming self or others (frequent suicidal

preoccupation; often neglecting family, or frequently abusing others

or committing criminal acts).

Severe impairment when self-centered or egotistical behavior results

in: (a) staying in bed all day, ( totally alienating all friends and

family, © severe risk of harming self or others (failing to maintain

personal hygiene; persistent danger of suicide, abuse, or crime).

1. An exaggerated sense of self-importance (e.g., exaggerates

achievements and talents, expects to be recognized as superior without

commensurate achievements)

Translation: Grandiosity is the hallmark of narcissism. So what is grandiose?

The simplest everyday way that narcissists show their exaggerated

sense of self-importance is by talking about family, work, life in

general as if there is nobody else in the picture. Whatever they may

be doing, in their own view, they are the star, and they give the

impression that they are bearing heroic responsibility for their

family or department or company, that they have to take care of

everything because their spouses or co-workers are undependable,

uncooperative, or otherwise unfit. They ignore or denigrate the

abilities and contributions of others and complain that they receive

no help at all; they may inspire your sympathy or admiration for their

stoicism in the face of hardship or unstinting self-sacrifice for the

good of (undeserving) others. But this everyday grandiosity is an

aspect of narcissism that you may never catch on to unless you visit

the narcissist's home or workplace and see for yourself that others

are involved and are pulling their share of the load and, more often

than not, are also pulling the narcissist's share as well. An example

is the older woman who told me with a sigh that she knew she hadn't

been a perfect mother but she just never had any help at all -- and

she said this despite knowing that I knew that she had worn out and

discarded two devoted husbands and had lived in her parents' pocket

(and pocketbook) as long as they lived, quickly blowing her

substantial inheritance on flaky business schemes. Another example is

claiming unusual benefits or spectacular results from ordinary effort

and investment, giving the impression that somehow the narcissist's

time and money are worth more than other people's. [Here is an article

about recognizing and coping with narcissism in the workplace; it is

rather heavy on management jargon and psychobabble, but worth reading.

" The Impact of Narcissism on Leadership and Sustainability " by Bruce

, Ph.D. " When the narcissistic defense is operating in an

interpersonal or group setting, the grandiose part does not show its

face in public. In public it presents a front of patience,

congeniality, and confident reasonableness. " ]

In popular usage, the terms narcissism, narcissist, and narcissistic

denote absurd vanity and are applied to people whose ambitions and

aspirations are much grander than their evident talents. Sometimes

these terms are applied to people who are simply full of themselves --

even when their real achievements are spectacular. Outstanding

performers are not always modest, but they aren't grandiose if their

self-assessments are realistic; e.g., Muhammad Ali, then Cassius Clay,

was notorious for boasting " I am the greatest! " and also pointing out

that he was the prettiest, but he was the greatest and the prettiest

for a number of years, so his self-assessments weren't grandiose. Some

narcissists are flamboyantly boastful and self-aggrandizing, but many

are inconspicuous in public, saving their conceit and autocratic

opinions for their nearest and dearest. Common conspicuous grandiose

behaviors include expecting special treatment or admiration on the

basis of claiming (a) to know important, powerful or famous people or

( to be extraordinarily intelligent or talented. As a real-life

example, I used to have a neighbor who told his wife that he was the

youngest person since Sir Isaac Newton to take a doctorate at Oxford.

The neighbor gave no evidence of a world-class education, so I looked

up Newton and found out that Newton had completed his baccalaureate at

the age of twenty-two (like most people) and spent his entire academic

career at Cambridge. The grandiose claims of narcissists are

superficially plausible fabrications, readily punctured by a little

critical consideration. The test is performance: do they deliver the

goods? (There's also the special situation of a genius who's also

strongly narcissistic, as perhaps Lloyd . Just remind

yourself that the odds are that you'll meet at least 1000 narcissists

for every genius you come across.) [More on grandiosity.]

2. Preoccupation with fantasies of unlimited success, power,

brilliance, beauty, or ideal love

Translation: Narcissists cultivate solipsistic or " autistic "

fantasies, which is to say that they live in their own little worlds

(and react with affront when reality dares to intrude).

3. Believes he is " special " and can only be understood by, or should

associate with, other special or high-status people (or institutions)

Translation: Narcissists think that everyone who is not special and

superior is worthless. By definition, normal, ordinary, and average

aren't special and superior, and so, to narcissists, they are

worthless.

4. Requires excessive admiration

Translation: Excessive in two ways: they want praise, compliments,

deference, and expressions of envy all the time, and they want to be

told that everything they do is better than what others can do.

Sincerity is not an issue here; all that matter are frequency and

volume.

5. Has a sense of entitlement

Translation: They expect automatic compliance with their wishes or

especially favorable treatment, such as thinking that they should

always be able to go first and that other people should stop whatever

they're doing to do what the narcissists want, and may react with hurt

or rage when these expectations are frustrated.

6. Selfishly takes advantage of others to achieve his own ends

Translation: Narcissists use other people to get what they want

without caring about the cost to the other people.

7. Lacks empathy

Translation: They are unwilling to recognize or sympathize with other

people's feelings and needs. They " tune out " when other people want to

talk about their own problems.

In clinical terms, empathy is the ability to recognize and

interpret other people's emotions. Lack of empathy may take two

different directions: (a) accurate interpretation of others' emotions

with no concern for others' distress, which is characteristic of

psychopaths; and ( the inability to recognize and accurately

interpret other people's emotions, which is the NPD style. This second

form of defective empathy may (rarely) go so far as alexithymia, or no

words for emotions, and is found with psychosomatic illnesses, i.e.,

medical conditions in which emotion is experienced somatically rather

than psychically. People with personality disorders don't have the

normal body-ego identification and regard their bodies only

instrumentally, i.e., as tools to use to get what they want, or, in

bad states, as torture chambers that inflict on them meaningless

suffering. Self-described narcissists who've written to me say that

they are aware that their feelings are different from other people's,

mostly that they feel less, both in strength and variety (and which

the narcissists interpret as evidence of their own superiority); some

narcissists report " numbness " and the inability to perceive meaning in

other people's emotions.

8. Is often envious of others or believes that others are envious of him

Translation: No translation needed.

9. Shows arrogant, haughty, patronizing, or contemptuous behaviors or attitudes

Translation: They treat other people like dirt.

[some descriptions and explanations on this page are based on material

from What is a personality disorder? by J. Hannig, Ph.D., The

Online Journal of Psychiatry, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, and

(defunct) Internet Mental Health questionnaire for diagnosis of

Narcissistic Personality Disorder. For a firsthand account of what

it's like to have NPD, see " Malignant Self-Love - Narcissism

Re-visited " by Shmuel (Sam) Vaknin, Ph.D.]

Introduction | What is a personality disorder? | Narcissistic

Personality Disorder

How to recognize a narcissist | Traits discussed | " Now We Are Six " |

" It's a Good Life "

What's normal? | Further reading | Attachment | Narcissus in art |

Aftermath | Beyond | Music

Feel free to drop me a note with questions or comments.

©1998-2004 by Joanna M. Ashmun.

[Guest guest]

Reading back through that, I hope I don't sound like a nut. Seriously,

I am just muddling along through life and I have weird ideas and often

make these bizzare leaps. Maybe its my adapatation to living in mold

for so long, I don't know. But I honestly do believe that a large

number of the tormentors of people like us have this condition, which

makes them pathological liars and prone to abusing others without a

second thought. I was raised by narcissists and I can tell you that

they are terrifying sick people. But again, they hide it SO VERY WELL.

People like me who are the children of narcissists have scars for life

and those scars are hard to recognize until later on. I can't trust

people like other people can. I have serious security issues. But

again and again, those instincts have saved me from bad situations.

Its an adaptation to a unhospitable environment, not unlike narcissism

itself. (But I am NOT a narcissist, I can feel. Perhaps too well.)

[Guest guest]

Wow.. read this paper. I think some of you are going to be surprised.. http://scan.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/nsl033v2 (Abstract only)

http://scan.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/rapidpdf/nsl033v2 (PDF of complete paper!)IMPORTANT NOTE BY POSTER ONLY: I know that there has been a lot of debate about the effect of mold toxins on *some* of the brain structures listed here (in the prefrontal cortex). This paper is not talking in any way about mold illness. Its talking about the kind of person who might be more likely to hurt people by their greed and lack of a functioning conscience. (The kind of people who don't clean up mold.)

Also, I do not think that this absolves them of guilt in any way. The sad fact is that society seems to look the other way in many situations in which the powerful hurt the weak. We need to look at ourselves as a society and ask why we let this happen.

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!____cut here____

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A common feature of the antisocial, rule-breaking behavior that is central to criminal, violent and psychopathic individuals is the failure to follow moral guidelines. This review summarizes

key findings from brain imaging research on both antisocial behavior and moral reasoning, and integrates these findings into a neural moral model of antisocial behavior. Key areas found to be functionally or structurally impaired in antisocial

populations include dorsal and ventral regions of the prefrontal cortex (PFC), amygdala, hippocampus, angular gyrus, anterior cingulate and temporal cortex. Regions most commonly activated

in moral judgment tasks consist of the polar/medial and ventral PFC, amygdala, angular gyrus and posterior cingulate. It is hypothesized that the rule-breaking behavior common to antisocial,

violent and psychopathic individuals is in part due to impairments in some of the structures (dorsal and ventral PFC, amygdala and angular gyrus) subserving moral cognition and emotion. Impairments

to the emotional component that comprises the feeling of what is moral is viewed as the primary deficit in antisocials, although some disruption to the cognitive and cognitive-emotional components

of morality (particularly self-referential thinking and emotion regulation) cannot be ruled out. While this neurobiological predisposition is likely only one of several biosocial processes

involved in the etiology of antisocial behavior, it raises significant moral issues for the legal system and neuroethics.

Keywords:

antisocial; psychopathy; moral; prefrontal; temporal.

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Quackadillian,

Interesting concept. So are you saying sick building syndrome is indeed caused by a psychological disorder?.....of the one who refuses fix the air quality of the building! I like that interpretation. That's funny.

Sharon

Sharon, thank you for pointing out this incredible example of denial out..Hey, here's a thought.. Bad bosses are the same kinds of bosses who would be more likely to force 'their' employees to work in unhealthy environments, i.e. not fix water leaks, not care about things like fresh air for workers, buy the very cheapest office supplies and cleaning supplies (which coincidentally, might also be the least healthy for them, etc.) Some bad bosses might even derive pleasure from seeing them suffer. Just look at 'bad landlords' .... (who really DO exist..) I think that there is an explanation for why MANY 'bad bosses' behave that way and its called narcissistic personality disorder.. (NPD)Look it up. A huge amount of the sorrow and pain on this planet is because of people with this disorder.. IMO. And its not uncommon, although the average person with NPD would also be the last person to ever admit anything was wrong with them.. (that is one of the indicators of NPD, an inability to ever admit your own mistakes) But having a bad boss can and will make you sick. But its a different kind of sick than sick building syndrome, it's from stress.Most of us will just pack up and leave when we are in a situation like that, but for some people, for example, people who are waiting to be eligible for a pension, or people who need health insurance and don't think that another job would give them the benefits they need, are often in a really bad situation because they risk personal disaster by leaving and they also are in a bad situatio by staying. But thats not SBS. Its n emotionally toxic situation, not a physically toxic one. But the two can often occur side by side and its not coincidental. Abusers seek out victims. That is a sick situation, but it exists.Look at the way toxic air or water pollution sources are disproportionally represented in poor communities. Look at how abusive men seek out emotionally or physically dependent women. (Often women with children!)Look at the terrible dynamics of some situations, like the situations of people held prisoner by terrorists or cults.. One could even see that kind of sadistic dynamic at work in politics.. Often.