Pandemics: COVID-19 and Life's Meaninglessness (also in Abusive Relationships)
Channel: Sam Vaknin's Musings
Date: 2020-03-30

Reviewing the WHO's inane COVID19 data (the mathematical extrapolations in the video are based on WHO numbers, e.g. Ro - Basic Reproduction Number - of 2-3). Watch my other videos regarding this outbreak on this YouTube channel.

Coronavirus: Nobel laureate says U.S. will have quicker COVID-19 recovery  https://www.news965.com/news/national/coronavirus-nobel-laureate-says-will-have-quicker-covid-recovery/No43ZbIF6TCc90QtV9IrRI/

UK Government: COVID-19 not High consequence infectious diseases (HCID) https://www.gov.uk/guidance/high-consequence-infectious-diseases-hcid#status-of-covid-19

Abusers control their victims by rendering their lives meaningless and inconsequential. The prey adopts the abuser's point of view: "You are nothing without me, unworthy trash, bad, sad, and mad". This kind of perpetual rejection and hurt often renders the abuser's judgment a self-fulfilling prophecy: CPTSD survivors are typically indistinguishable from patients with Borderline Personality Disorder in their impulsivity, recklessness, promiscuity, substance abuse, mood lability, and emotional dysregulation.

Exposed to the abuser's grinding and relentless devaluation, his "intimate" partners and (in)significant others resort to vengeful and demonstrative self-trashing intended to hurt the perpetrator by debasing his "property" often in humiliating public displays of infidelity and drunkenness or by committing antisocial, even criminal, acts.

With these self-destructive actions, the victim is protesting: "You say that my life is meaningless? I am going to make myself meaningful to you via your pain, by harming you, and by traumatizing and provoking you!"