tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8092261346236962635.post2679760854613867146..comments2023-11-05T12:22:53.660+00:00Comments on Gledwood Vol 2 (Main blog): "Disordered"Gledwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09308172310486574510noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8092261346236962635.post-30220088167143806062010-07-16T16:54:06.801+01:002010-07-16T16:54:06.801+01:00I think y'all have good points.
As I understa...I think y'all have good points.<br /><br />As I understand it, to be diagnosed with a personality disorder you must exhibit such characteristics to an extreme that puts you outside the majority, who obviously have good days and shit days.<br /><br />I was actually encouraged by the nuttynurse to go browsing as I have done. In a way it has been good as I would never in a million years have said I had "racing thoughts" - my experience is precisely as described, to a T, but to me that ain't racing because they're concurrent rather than consecutive.<br /><br />The characteristics of borderline I have had that made me worried were the dissociative ones and I get the impression most people do NOT have experiences like that.<br /><br /><br />As for moods I'm not sure I fit the borderline mood type at all. I get pissed off easily but then so do a vast quantity of the population.<br /><br />The other stuff can all come under the label depressed, because that is how I feel, depressed.<br /><br />I avoid antidepressants bc they make me feel like I am turning frm a depressive into a manic-depressive and SO much chaos ensued last time I do not want to go through that again.<br /><br />I think to put it in shrink language I have been troubled by self esteem issues since childhood. I have also had depression that first manifested in childhood. I think there is a bipolar flavour to this depression, but I am not bipolar, I'm just further in that direction than the average person with depressive tendencies...<br /><br />My favourite cod diagnosis - and the worst joke is, this is REAL, from the DSM manual. A naughty kid has a "conduct disorder". A very naughty kid has "oppositional-defiant disorder"... these are all real diagnoses, so "borderline personality" has to be seen in that light. Which is why I say even if I DID "satisfy" such criteria, I STILL don't believe it's real. <br /><br />It put me in the mother of all bad moods ALL DAY though, thinking I might be...Gledwoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09308172310486574510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8092261346236962635.post-4910933965945773032010-07-16T16:54:06.802+01:002010-07-16T16:54:06.802+01:00This comment has been removed by the author.Gledwoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09308172310486574510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8092261346236962635.post-61813921241420858132010-07-16T14:56:25.012+01:002010-07-16T14:56:25.012+01:00I'll tell ya what makes my head swim in racing...I'll tell ya what makes my head swim in racing thoughts....<br /><br />The fact that there is a diagnosis out there for pretty much EVERYTHING. Better put a name on it so that we can capitalize...<br /><br />Do u ever think that maybe these emotional ups and downs are just symptomatic of environmental influence? Normal human reaction?Reeny's Ramblin'https://www.blogger.com/profile/12050247389542400578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8092261346236962635.post-54229915186784392942010-07-16T14:05:15.110+01:002010-07-16T14:05:15.110+01:00I don't think you're mad either. In fact, ...I don't think you're mad either. In fact, I think you may be saner than most.<br /><br />Have a good weekend,<br /><br />SBSarcastic Bastardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17116577711704241625noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8092261346236962635.post-56889324924843788182010-07-16T12:32:03.266+01:002010-07-16T12:32:03.266+01:00The kicker is: psychiatry has never cured anyone.
...The kicker is: psychiatry has never cured anyone.<br /><br />People like to categorize. Deciding that you may experience a lot of things in some arbitrary list and are therefore now labelled and belong in some group that someone made up doesn't sound terribly scientific to me. I'm not saying that you're ok, I'm ok - I'm saying that maybe their theories are pretty bogus. But they are trying. And I hope you can be helped.Jeanniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15320507412459242451noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8092261346236962635.post-73373389027069286072010-07-16T11:02:09.712+01:002010-07-16T11:02:09.712+01:00I think that I have some of those things too but a...I think that I have some of those things too but am not borderline. I believe that these characteristics have to manifest for over a year to be a true diagnosis. Self-diagnosing isn't helpful to me. One can cherry pick a few symptoms from just about any mental illness and say "yes, I felt that way once or twice".Sydhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05642843245634635843noreply@blogger.com