Paul Schrader, “Taxi Driver” screenwriter, once said he used to get calls from people asking how he got down what it was like so accurately. His distinctly crafted voice and detailed, elaborate character tics strike a stirring, psychological chord with many a person. Travis Bickle, Robert De Niro’s character in “Taxi Driver,” is often the pop culture shorthand to describe such individuals whom are on this death spiral. Loneliness is the cancer that allows self-destruction to reach its peak.
Usually they have some sort of mental illness, but rarely will they have the self-awareness, or enough people who really, truly, love them to go seek help. They begin, more and more, to drift into a cycle of self-destruction. Romanticism is the heroin of the narcissist.
Nobody ever wants to see themselves as a bad person, even when they’re doing bad things.
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