SUPERIORITY

 

People with a superiority complex have an inflated view of themselves and tend to think they are smarter, cleverer and better than others.

Often people with a superiority complex will make us feel bad about ourselves but caught up in the power of their complex they would not be concerned about this. They become too identified with their own superiority to think too much about others except that is for wanting other people to see them as superior.

Is the superiority complex covering something up?

When working with someone who has a superiority complex, ask yourself: is this attitude working to throw people off the scent of something else or of more vulnerable feelings?

If we feel we are in the company of someone with a superiority complex we should ask ourselves ‘what is the person compensating for?’

• A superiority complex is often an attitude that develops out of a need to conceal feelings of inferiority and vulnerability.
• When we believe someone is overcompensating, we should wonder what is it about the person that they do not want us to see?

Overcompensating and trying to blindly cover up feelings of inferiority is unhealthy and sometimes dangerous:

1. The superiority complex is difficult to live with, it alienates people and ultimately means that the relationships they have are based upon false feelings.
2. The superiority complex is covering up weaknesses and vulnerabilities in the person that need to be explored and attended to before more serious problems develop.  Ignoring your vulnerability can put you in risky positions.

If the covered-up experience or feelings of vulnerability and inferiority is left, not explored and seen for what it is, then there remains the possibility that the complex will suddenly collapse and leave the person in a state of a nervous breakdown.

Whenever we detect that someone’s psychological mood or persona feels unbalanced, we should wonder what is really going on?

Superiority complex - when it suddenly goes wrong!

These kinds of complexes sometimes play out to tragic effects in the case of sudden deaths and suicides. 

Out of the blue, we hear that a person who had always presented themselves as strong, reliable, powerful and confident has taken their own life.  When this happens, we are faced with painful questions:

• What was really going on?
• How did we not see it coming?

They always seemed so strong and confident… now we discover they were not. Behind all, that superiority and apparent confidence lived a vulnerable person. These cases are tragic and not uncommon.

How do we find a way to intervene before we end up with a tragic or dire outcome?  Can we become better at spotting the tendency to a one-sided development in ourselves or in others before we are completely unbalanced, crashed and broken down?

 

 

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