The 1962 film “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?” stars Bette Davis as former child star Baby Jane Hudson who torments her wheelchair-bound sister Blanche, and Joan Crawford as the long-suffering sister. The film is a brilliant psychological thriller about a whack job who had a brief fling with fame and spent her life trying to regain it.
Today, Baby Jane’s illness is called NPD. Narcissistic Personality Disorder is a mental health condition in which people have an unreasonably high sense of their own importance. They need and seek too much attention and want people to admire them. People with this disorder may lack the ability to understand or care about the feelings of others.
Now who else can we easily identify as an NPD sufferer? Perhaps a candidate for the highest office in the country that we know cares nothing for anyone but himself, lies incessantly and refuses to abandon a ridiculous comb-over rather than admit to thinning hair? Or perhaps a grouchy old curmudgeon that self-publishes a daily blog that serves no purpose other than to feed his own ego and give credence to his tiresome and banal judgements of everyone that has more money than him?
Haha, just kidding…NOT!