Trait Entitlement: A Cognitive-Personality Source of Vulnerability to Psychological Distress.
"First, exaggerated expectations, notions of the self as special, and inflated deservingness associated with trait entitlement present the individual with a continual vulnerability to unmet expectations. Second, entitled individuals are likely to interpret these unmet expectations in ways that foster disappointment, ego threat, and a sense of perceived injustice, all of which may lead to psychological distress indicators such as dissatisfaction across multiple life domains, anger, and generally volatile emotional responses"
http://psycnet.apa.org/?&fa=main.doiLanding&doi=10.1037/bul0000063
but of course..... Psychiatry as Bullshit
"By even the most charitable interpretation of the concept, the institution of modern psychiatry is replete with bullshit. "
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/springer/ehpp/2016/00000018/00000001/
story http://www.rawstory.com/2016/09/proven-wrong-about-many-of-its-assertions-is-psychiatry-bullsht/
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