I’m still leaning on quiet BPD, that explains his lack of external aggression, and quiet BPDs are often quite likeable and very entertaining and humorous… it’s a necessity if they’re gonna get away with constantly taking away other’s external aggression….
Covert Narcissists are way more boring in comparison, and tend to use combo of dissociation and grandiosity as their defenses…. stonewalls and filibustering….. yes RG uses those tactics, but I don’t think it’s his primary…
This video follows the trend of RG being very touchy and having very mixed emotions around the BPD diagnosis and label… I’m reading that as he’s fixated on that label, in addition to the relabel of C-PTSD which is more of a BPD core vs Narcissist…
Narcissists would be spending more energy trying to get self-esteem juice, Narcissistic supply, and impression management… RG does that, but I also see deeper drives to counter his abandonment terror, and self regulate his emotions through playing teacher role… or helping others….
I doubt that RG is following this thread, but who knows…
He is still providing a unique service in this Narcissistic abuse recovery space online. He can make rather dull topics entertaining and is able to use shame, ridicule, exaggeration to make certain points. That’s a nice contrast to the norm of just intellectualization, demonizing and non-stop paranoia filled gaslighting; that other channels are full of.
Though he might be using his ability to go into altered states and realities, to tap into deep truths… but the price is attracting and creating a shared psychosis mind state…. which attracts those with psychotic tendencies.. and also might promote action faking….. mistaking those deep downloads with wisdom as embodied skill….
