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A lot of actors have personality disorders. The mimicry of the behavior of others is a technique in navigating social situations when you are unable/unaware of

A lot of actors have personality disorders. The mimicry of the behavior of others is a technique in navigating social situations when you are unable/unaware of how you feel. In the "crazy interview" Tom did for scientology you can literally see him flick through a deck of emotions. His entire demeanor is a bit like a random walk through mimicking the emotional states of others. I can't recall if I had any idea of the trigger in that case. But, hypothetically, it could be a technique to disguise an unpalatable emotion he was havin. Often, I believe, this would be rage/anger/contempt. I wonder whether the "intense eyes" of cruize/kanye/etc. are that of an intense rage/contempt. Their demeanor is certianly mimicry, what it is they would be emoting is harder to ascertain. People describe being around that type as like "walking on egg-shells". That's because they really are in an anger-prone state... you just can't see it. But you can "feel" that if you slip up, the rage will become public and take the form of abuse.

Gargoyle 9y ago
>People describe being around that type as like "walking on egg-shells". That's because they really are in an anger-prone state. I know several people who have worked with Cruise on films who describe their experience as the opposite of this.
- mjburgess 9y ago
  That may be. It's hard to say from this account alone; some people are not very sensitive to the underlying emotional state of others and take their presentations at face value. It is rare in NPD for people to actually display their genuine emotional state and its typically a situational slip-up (eg. Kanye). It might be, actually, Cruise has some other issue. Clearly however there is an issue at-hand. His emotional state has been all over the place; and he often displays an intensity that is contextually inappropriate. Could be that he has hypomanic/manic episodes. But he seems to have always been this way, ie., this isnt episodic.

Gargoyle 9y ago

>People describe being around that type as like "walking on egg-shells". That's because they really are in an anger-prone state. I know several people who have worked with Cruise on films who describe their experience as the opposite of this.

mjburgess 9y ago
That may be. It's hard to say from this account alone; some people are not very sensitive to the underlying emotional state of others and take their presentations at face value. It is rare in NPD for people to actually display their genuine emotional state and its typically a situational slip-up (eg. Kanye). It might be, actually, Cruise has some other issue. Clearly however there is an issue at-hand. His emotional state has been all over the place; and he often displays an intensity that is contextually inappropriate. Could be that he has hypomanic/manic episodes. But he seems to have always been this way, ie., this isnt episodic.