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The homilopathic personality is usually attributed to people who suffer from a disability. Can physical handicap really lead to pathological character changes?
Homilopathyis a personality type. Some researchers believe thathomilopathic personalityhas its source precisely in disability, others question the general sense of treating homilopathy as a separate form of personality pathology. Why? Because most of the features mentioned in research works, attributed to a homilopathic personality, fall within the commonly accepted concept of paranoid personality. Besides, describing the homilopathic personality as characteristic of the disabled additionally stigmatizes them.
Homilopathic personality and disability
The appearance of a homilopathic personality is explained by the fact that a disabled person, mainly due to the lack of acceptance of his otherness on the part of the environment, but also due to the inability to accept his own handicap, develops specific character traits and a specific attitude towards the environment.
Homilopathy: Characteristic Features
What character traits can aggravate and highlight a disability? first of all, it is uncertainty and unbelief in one's own abilities, lowered self-esteem (often an inferiority complex), low level of self-acceptance. Homilopathic people are hypersensitive, distrustful and overly cautious. They have a constant sense of threat, distorted self-image, and a sense of external control. They suffer from mood swings. Their ego is weak and they are over-focused on "me". They often attribute hostile intentions to their surroundings (sometimes even delusional). They like to be sufferers and martyrs.
Homilopathic personality: attitude towards the environment
A homilopath is characterized by malignant, aggressive or even antisocial behavior. A man with a homilopathic personality lives with envy, rebellion, hatred towards the he althy and happy, who wish badly and are even able to actively harm them.
I used the work of prof. Andrzej Jakubik, published in Zeszyty Naukowe WSS-M, 2002