Sentences with phrase «unrelieved adversity»

This intransigently held, fixed and false belief (i.e., a delusion) is created by the collapse of the organized cognitive structures of the narcissistic / borderline personality into delusional beliefs, as specifically described by Millon (2011), in response to the psychological stresses triggered by the «unrelieved adversity and failure» surrounding the divorce experience (i.e., the public rejection and abandonment of the narcissistic / (borderline) parent by the attachment figure of the other spouse).

«Under conditions of unrelieved adversity and failure, narcissists may decompensate into paranoid disorders.