Impatience
Impatient people push through others’ boundaries in order to
hurry them up. They also tend to have a
very poor sense of where they are. Their
boundaries can be elusive but are by no means completely absent.
Martyrdom
Martyred people are calculating about how they allow others
to intrude upon them. They appear to
have no boundaries at all, but they actually have more control than they
show. They make a business out of
relinquishing their boundaries.
Greed
Greedy people are famous for intruding on others and failing
to respect others’ boundaries. However,
they defend themselves against receiving and place too many rigid boundaries on
themselves. That is the deprivation side
of greed.
Self-Destruction
Self-destructive people have a dual approach to
boundaries. They are difficult to reach
and have rigid defenses against intimacy.
However, they tend to be sloppy about respecting others’ boundaries and
they intrude on others in violent ways.
People with stubbornness have rigid, inflexible
boundaries. They draw their lines in the
sand over arbitrary issues that are typically fears of oppression projected
onto others. If others crash through
their brittle boundaries, they can become deeply depressed or overwhelmed with
despair. Stubborn people do not
necessarily invade others’ boundaries;
they are more protective of their own.
The following dragons are the effect or symptom of the active dragon in your psyche.
Action Dragons
Assimilation Dragon
The dragon that stops absorption of information :
Stubbornness
Expressions Dragon
Inspiration Dragon
Dragons that stop inspiration : self-deprecation and
arrogance
Narrow-focused dragon
Personality fear patterns (dragons) that narrow people’s
sphere of influence : martyrdom, self-deprecation and self-destruction
MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL
DYSFUNCTIONS RESULTING FROM THE ACTIVITIES OF THE DRAGONS
Autistic disorder : stubbornness
Specific developmental disorders -
Mostly stubbornness and impatience
Disruptive behaviour disorders –
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder : impatience
Conduct disorders : mostly self-destruction
Oppositional defiant disorder : stubbornness
Sadism : self-destruction
Voyeurism : greed, arrogance
Sexual disfunctions –
Hypoactive sexual desire disorder : greed
Sexual aversion disorder : stubbornness, arrogance
Female sexual arousal disorder : impatience, stubbornness,
arrogance
Male erectile disorder : impatience, stubbornness, arrogance
Inhibited orgasm : stubbornness, martyrdom
Premature ejaculation : impatience
Sleep disorders –
Insomnia : impatience, martyrdom
Factitious disorders – martyrdom
Impulse control disorders –
Intermittent explosive disorder : self-destruction, greed
Kleptomania : self-destruction, greed
Gambling : self-destruction, greed
Pyromania : self-destruction, greed
Personality Disorders –
Paranoid : arrogance, martyrdom
Schizoid : self-deprecation
Schizotypal : arrogance, self-deprecation
Antisocial : self-destruction
Borderline : self-destruction, arrogance, self-deprecation,
impatience, greed
Narcisistic : greed, arrogance
Avoidant : self-deprecation
Dependant : self-deprecation
Obsessive compulsive : arrogance, stubbornness
Passive-aggressive : stubbornness, martyrdom
Extracted from the book Conquering your Dragons by Jose Stephens.