Cribphilia The Pathogenesis and Behavioral Root Cause of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Hallmark Characteristics of Cribphillia(of Yours and others)

Cribiphilia(again remember this is a subtype behavioral disorder identified by Lyfas and is not classified as a disease yet by either DSM-5 or ICD-10) can be diagnosed by:-

1. Cribbing onto Past: The history of failure which they brag too much about to pretend why they were still successful and have the right of cribbing.
2. Diversity Phobia: Cribphilic person wants to sharpen one skill and keep doing better with that skill. When there is the stress of change, and when life demands them to adapt to the new changes, they fail to adapt. Often top corporate bosses of the listed companies become Cribphillic, or Cribphillics become the bosses, who continuously drive the company to financial superiority because of their hyperfocus on one thing. However, at every change, they lead the company to collapse because of this unrecognized, unaddressed behavioral change. Two good examples are the Almost 200-year-old companies Nokia and Kodak collapsing when the Smartphone and digital camera came into existence respectively.
3. Growthphobia: Growth is often multidimensional. When a child grows, the brain grows, knowledge grows, intellect grows, emotion grows, the social circle grows, activities grow, and thinking grows. It is not only the length of the child that grows. Such growth is only seen in the Creepers. The creepers grow in length very fast, without growing their stem and roots, and therefore have a short lifespan.
   Cribphilic individuals are growthphobic, and often see creeping as growth. When their subject of obsession starts growing(either creeping or real multi-dimensional growth), they become insecure about losing their obsession and do everything to tame the subject of obsession and control them.

4. Creeping: Cribbing comes with Creeping comorbidity. Creeping plants are invasive plants, which are extremely selfish. They literally suck all the micronutrients from the ground and no other species of plants can grow where the creepers are growing(creeping). In the corporate environment, creepers succeed by crushing any other individuals whom they remotely consider as a competitor and a threat to their own growth. They often starve the ecosystem and kill the diversity, creating an environment where it is hard for anyone else to survive.
   A classic example of modern-day Creeper startups(called the unicorns) who creeps so fast, and makes creeping the fashion, and the entire financial instrument gets diverted to the creepers, starving any other innovation to death.
5. Passive Aggression: Passive aggression is a hallmark of many neurotic disorders that have not blossomed into psychosis. Individuals whose growth was tamed by a Cribphillic would eventually become a cribphillic, as his/her world has been limited to a small area, where he/she has to survive, as well as grow just in length would have to become obsessed with that small environment itself. Limited operating area, disproportionate creeping growth, and underneath cribbing lead to not enough energy and resources for aggression. The way creepers silently kill the other plants around them, the Cribphilic becomes passive-aggressive, and through their verbal aggression and remarks, distorts the mind of everyone around them.
6. Victimhood: Victimhood is a classic characteristic trait of Cribphilic. It is just like the horse who while cribbing, constantly sucks for air and feels that the world is unfair and denying it the amount of Oxygen it needs. Same way, a cribphillic individual manages to always find something to complain about and is never content with whatever he/she has. They are always the victim.
7. Cat-string: Victimhood psychosis is always accompanied by envy of “I want what others have.” It is like a cat that will try hard to get when you hang a toy away from them, and the moment you give it to them, they are not interested in that anymore. Now they need something different. However, if you try to take the toy again, they again aggressively pursue the toy or the string. This is a hallmark of an underdeveloped brain, which has an absolute undergrown child at the core, which is being protected by a “tough persona” that pursues more and more, just for the inner validation that the child is growing. Because of this distance of the persona from the core, they are disconnected from the self.
8. Classism: Cribphics are defined as extremely class-centric, and racist(knowingly or often unknowingly), who hates everyone different from them, and everything they don’t have. For instance, if they have a Honda City car, they will resent anyone with a Maruti Alto as a worthless individual.
   Same way when they see anyone with Mercedez, they resent them as scammers. Because every individual ever born is different, Cribphilia leads one to eventually hate everyone other than themselves. This leads to Malignant individualism.
   Malignant individualism leads to pathological loneliness. So, even though they appear socially cool and heartthrob at parties, soon people start distancing themselves from the Cribphillic person, leaving behind a lonely miserable undergrown child at the core. Eventually, they start hating themselves.
9. Opinionated: Because of the disconnection to the core, Cribphillic does not feel alive, and does not know the way a normal mentally healthy individual knows life. They like anyone and everyone who agrees with them, and anyone and everyone who does not. That is specifically “Agree” becomes a popular word in the corporate.
10. Parroting: Parroting is the process by means of which the Cribphillics keep repeating statements to give confirmation to themselves. Often such statements are around self-boasting and hailing their own contribution towards the work and society.
    

How Cribbing Slowly Becomes Pathological?

Cribphillia is Neuroticism

Cribiphilia is a Neurotism, where the limbic brain gets a constant supply of negative energy through hate, envy, greed, and jealousy. As any neurotic disorder creates anxiety, the Cribphillics are anxious. Anxiety disorder, is a hallmark of insecurity and disconnection from the core, and an insecure core creates fear and worries all the time, and fear always leads to paranoia, and frustration is expressed as irritation, which is then released as anger, all mentioned characteristics are embedded into the psychology of the individual.

Why it seems that we are dealing with a wall while in a relationship with OCD?

Compensatory Persona

Those who are insecure always worry about being seen as vulnerable by people. Thus, they conceal their vulnerabilities. They conceal opinions as silly stitistics driven facts, insecurities as confidence, inner loneliness as extrovertism, hate as niceness, anger as empathy, jealousy as care, racism as identity, crushing others as taking care, passive-aggressiveness as a sense of humor, Cribbing as focus.

Mental Model:- Self-talk of a Cribphillic

Interestingly, Cribphillics think that they know more than the Cribbed object/person about anything and everything.

Here are other mental stories:-

1. Saviour:- I just want to help the object, but the object is a fool, doesn’t deserve my help, and will suffer.
2. Denier:– I have nothing to do with the object, and yet keep cribbing. (Nothing to do is a concealing statement for inner OCD).
3. I am right because he is right:- Cribbers can hear, bear, and comprehend nothing contradictory or remote than their object. They reach out to everyone they know to get validation for their cribbing. Then they propagate their belief as universal truth, because their world is a world of a well of a wall, with other Cribbers, cribbing about the same.
4. I Know it All:– I am a winner, so obviously I know more than the others. Everyone must listen to me. I have spent decades learning and winning. I want to see others winning(no, if others follow what I say, it simply means that I am right)
5. Without me he/she will die: No one can love him or her more than me(again, mistaking the obsession with love). They secretly desire, pray, hope, feel, believe, and wish that the object of their cribbing will be crushed, and eventually come back to them.

Now let us understand what are the other progress and consequence of the Cribphillia.