Emotions are composites, often confused with moods, states of mind, and cognitions. They are often mislabeled or misinterpreted. Consider, for example, shyness.
Many processes, traits, and behaviors are mistaken for shyness. Among them: paranoid ideation, anticipatory anxiety, dysregulated emotions, depression, body dysmorphia, strong inhibitions, passive aggression, fear of intimacy.
Hypermasochistic psychosexuality includes exhibitionism and arousal by degradation.
Substance abuse is often involved as both a form of self-trashing and as a disinhibiting agency.
Psychopaths can be shy. Covert narcissists can be avoidant and self-effacing. Both pathologies sometimes present with vulnerabilities, fragility, and with a schizoid core.
Some children are rejected and ridiculed by their peers: those who are on the Autism Spectrum, who suffer from social anxiety/phobia, who are gifted or exceptional in some way, who are depressed or anxious, or who are otherwise deemed “freaks” or “nerds”.
Such kids often develop narcissistic and psychopathic defenses, traits, behaviors (conduct and oppositional defiant disorders), and worldview (theories of mind and internal working models). They grow up to become full-fledged adult narcissists and psychopaths.
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