Thread: Personality Disorders

Some got em, some don't.

Personality disorders are like a lot of things. You must first admit you have one and then resolve that you will do something about it, i,e, either study and help yourself or get professional help.

Ignoring the problem or just talking about it will not make it go away.

Originally posted by Aquanina
What's your take on em?

You're gonna have to be a bit more specific.

I think personality disorders are often shunned or looked down upon. Why. I guess human nature. But speaking of nature think of this. The brain is an organ just as any other organ, like our heart or our liver. Granted it is much more complex. Which gives even more grounds to my point.
And my point is that why is it considered that you may be odd when you are born with a malfunction of the brain, yet if someone is born with an enlarged heart well, it is just an enlarged heart.
Psychiatrist for anxiety = freak
Doctor for enlarged heart = good call

Originally posted by bradybaker

You're gonna have to be a bit more specific.

I think Howie pretty much got what I meant. About how alot of people think they aren't...real. That people should be able to control it...that they are just weak because of it. But they don't realize that it's a real medical condition. So some call you selfish, immature, an attention seeker...they just don't get it. And they never will.

And Seeker...I think some people (as a result of their personality disorder) simply don't care to try to get help. They've accepted their future for whatever it will be. Hopeless. And choose to give up...or to continue on. Hopeful.

This may be a sorry scenario but hey.
Look at it as a piece of cake. (in relation to a life) You have your entire life filled with negative thoughts, bad events and this molds you. This is the cake. Then if you begin to take a progress in getting help you can't fix 15, 20, 40 years in a year. This is the frosting.
So it takes resolve. But once the ball gets rolling it compounds exponentially.
There are always set backs. But that does not define who you are. You are experiencing a set back, you are not a setback. You are not depression. It is just an experience.

God damnit Jason.

Now I want some cake.

Originally posted by Aquanina
What's your take on em?

A huge chunk of the population has at least one. I used to be a mental health worker, and I'm very interested in them. The most interesting ones are the DSM IV Cluster B disorders...

1. Antisocial Personality Disorder- The fairly recent, politically correct term for people who used to be labelled "sociopaths"
2. Narcissistic Personality Disorder- A very sick level of arrogance, except it is actually rationalized arrogance that exists for the purpose of helping the person deal with what deep down is, ironically, very low self esteem
3. Borderline Personality Disorder- Extreme and very rapid mood changes accompanied by identity confusion
4. Histrionic Personality Disorder- Hysterical emotionalism that results in an ongoing need for extreme attention

Something that is so fascinating about those disorders, which are interesting enough alone, is that they very often come together in various cominations. That is why they are all put into one cluster. It is very common for people who have at least one to have all four.

Originally posted by Universal Mind

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1-a : Antisocial Narcissistic Personality Disorder- The fairly recent, politically correct term for people who used to be labelled \"sociopaths\" with a very sick level of arrogance.

Whew! Nice to know it's not my fault I'm such a dick.

Originally posted by Aquanina+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Aquanina)</div>

And Seeker...I think some people (as a result of their personality disorder) simply don't care to try to get help. They've accepted their future for whatever it will be. Hopeless. And choose to give up...or to continue on. Hopeful.[/b]

I don't understand the defeatists. Why would anyone resign themselves to living the rest of their life like that. All change begins with the desire to change. Lack of desire to change is just unfathomable to me. It's like saying you are going to leave your hand lying on the hot stove eye because you have just resigned yourself to that fate.


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And Seeker...I think some people (as a result of their personality disorder) simply don't care to try to get help.

This is a truly sad situation. However, if the person recognizes this about themselves then they are not too far gone and should force theirselves to get help. Probably professional help. Nina, if you know someone in this situation, please encourage them to seek help.

Well,I 've actually been suffering from bipolar disorder/manic depression.That means I have extreme mood swings.I 've been through a lot of "weird" stuff and yeah,sometimes I wonder if I am real,too.

Originally posted by Cassandra
Well,I 've actually been suffering from bipolar disorder/manic depression.That means I have extreme mood swings.I 've been through a lot of "weird" stuff and yeah,sometimes I wonder if I am real,too.

Originally posted by Aquanina

I like where this is going.

pervert

Originally posted by Aquanina
pervert

I've recently been promoted to PROvert. The order of advancement is as follows: prevert --> pervert ---> provert. ~

Ah, In The Moment, you crash into conversations with such style and sophistication.

Originally posted by InTheMoment

I've recently been promoted to PROvert. The order of advancement is as follows: prevert --> pervert ---> provert. ~

Well there is a personality disorder that is considered an addiction to sex. Ha. What a laugh.
It must be the most predominant disorder out there.

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Well there is a personality disorder that is considered an addiction to sex. Ha. What a laugh.
It must be the most predominant disorder out there.

Haha I was totally going to say something about sexual addiction but decided to just call you a pervert instead.

Originally posted by Aquanina


Haha I was totally going to say something about sexual addiction but decided to just call you a pervert instead.

ITM is the perv not me!

Wait a minute...Is this one of those intervention things?

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ITM is the perv not me!

oops I meant call *him* a pervert

Originally posted by Aquanina
What's your take on em?

Most personality manifestations reflect survival strategies that have come down to the present generation genetically. In the nature vs nurture debate, the side of nurture had benefited greatly by the falsification of data in some of the foundational 'studies' that had been published, but more recent studies indicate that the Apples are not falling very far from the Trees (that separated Twins retain a great degree of similarity even when 'nurtured' by families of greatly different traditions and temperaments).

And Old Civilization will tend to produce a stable and healthy Personality Type. Barbarian Cultures will revert to animal-like natures. If Brutality becomes a survival asset, then it will eventually breed a race of Brutes.

Many of the Personality Disorders we see today may originate in the inability of some Genetic Mixes to resolve into a satisfactory integration. What happens when a Strain of Civilization combines with a strain of Barbarism? This may result in an irreconcilable conflict of opposing and contradictory impulses.

Originally posted by Leo Volont


Most personality manifestations reflect survival strategies that have come down to the present generation genetically. *In the nature vs nurture debate, the side of nurture had benefited greatly by the falsification of data in some of the foundational 'studies' that had been published, but more recent studies indicate that the Apples are not falling very far from the Trees (that separated Twins retain a great degree of similarity even when 'nurtured' by families of greatly different traditions and temperaments).

And Old Civilization will tend to produce a stable and healthy Personality Type. *Barbarian Cultures will revert to animal-like natures. *If Brutality becomes a survival asset, then it will eventually breed a race of Brutes.

Many of the Personality Disorders we see today may originate in the inability of some Genetic Mixes to resolve into a satisfactory integration. *What happens when a Strain of Civilization combines with a strain of Barbarism? *This may result in an irreconcilable conflict of opposing and contradictory impulses.

An example of this. It is believed that many anxiety disorders are a result of the fight or flight survival instinct that we had once used much more to survive.