I think most of you fit these various personality disorders . . .

please own your illness and rise.

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• Paranoid
• Schizoid
• Schizotypal

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• Antisocial
• Borderline
• Histrionic
• Narcissistic

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• Avoidant
• Dependent
• Obsessive–compulsive

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• Depressive
• Passive-aggressive
• Sadistic
• Self-defeating

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Paranoid personality disorder (PPD) is a mental disorder characterized by paranoia and a pervasive, long-standing suspiciousness and generalized mistrust of others. Individuals with this personality disorder may be hypersensitive, easily feel slighted, and habitually relate to the world by vigilant scanning of the environment for clues or suggestions that may validate their fears or biases. Paranoid individuals are eager observers. They think they are in danger and look for signs and threats of that danger, potentially not appreciating other evidence.

They tend to be guarded and suspicious and have quite constricted emotional lives. Their reduced capacity for meaningful emotional involvement and the general pattern of isolated withdrawal often lend a quality of schizoid isolation to their life experience. People with this particular disorder may or may not have a tendency to bear grudges, suspiciousness, tendency to interpret others' actions as hostile, persistent tendency to self-reference, or a tenacious sense of personal right.[SUP][3][/SUP]

 

Schizoid personality disorder (SPD) is a personality disorder characterized by a lack of interest in social relationships, a tendency towards a solitary lifestyle, secretiveness, emotional coldness, and apathy. Affected individuals may simultaneously demonstrate a rich, elaborate and exclusively internal fantasy world,[SUP][1][/SUP]although this is often more suggestive of schizotypal personality disorder.

SPD is not the same as schizophrenia, although they share such similar characteristics as detachment and blunted affect. There is, moreover, increased prevalence of the disorder in families with schizophrenia.

Some psychologists argue that the definition of SPD is flawed due to cultural bias: "One reason schizoid people are pathologized is because they are comparatively rare. People in majorities tend to assume that their own psychology is normative and to equate difference with inferiority". Therefore "[t]he so-called schizoid personality disorder is one of the more blatant examples of the APA’s pathologizing of normal human differences."

 

Can I take more than one?

 

Schizotypal personality disorder is a personality disorder characterized by a need for social isolation, anxiety in social situations, odd behavior and thinking, and often unconventional beliefs. People with this disorder feel extreme discomfort with maintaining close relationships with people, and therefore they often do not. People who have this disorder may display peculiar manners of talking and dressing and often have difficulty in forming relationships. In some cases, they may react oddly in conversations, not respond or talk to themselves.[SUP][1][/SUP] They frequently misinterpret situations as being strange or having unusual meaning for them; paranormal and superstitious beliefs are not uncommon. People with this disorder seek medical attention for things such as anxiety, depression, or other symptoms[SUP][citation needed][/SUP]. Schizotypal personality disorder occurs in 3% of the general population and is slightly more common in males.


The term "schizotypal" is derived from "schizotype," and was coined by Sandor Rado in 1956 as an abbreviation of one phenotype of a "schizophrenic genotype". Schizotypal personality disorder may in some cases be a precursor to schizophrenia.[SUP][4][/SUP] However, a study done by Haznedar et al. (2004) suggests that they may be two distinct disorders.

 

I believe some here suffer a synthesis of mental illnesses.

 

I still don't understand borderline personality. WTF?

 

i feel like sigmund freud is my grandfather

 

AG suffers from that* . . . he is a case study.












* and a marked degree of narcissistic personality disorder dotted by a myopic view of the internet as real world

 

[video=youtube;bXOIqoldNRI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXOIqoldNRI[/video]

 

...and I'll take obsessive compulsive with a dash of depressive.

 

Can you give me a brief explanation of this illness?

 

those one-starring my thread suffer from narcissistic rage marked by their passive-aggressive tendencies.

 

Cluster C

 

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a serious mental illness marked by unstable moods, behavior, and relationships.

 

the road rage cluster

 

an interesting game is to match the forum member to the personality disorder cluster . . . mine own is not specified bottom-dwelling cluster.

 

So.....bat shit crazy.

 

sure -- like the everywoman that has about five kids with different fathers, hooked on Xanax and experiences financial tailspins from periodic spending sprees.