Personality disorder

I have met a handful of people who have been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. For me it needs to be looked at differently. The disorder part removed and instead consider it as a constellation of emotional challenges regarding identity and relationships due to complex trauma.

I have never met a sociopath or psychopath or a person who has narcissistic personality disorder. They do exist but I think they are very very overused terms ascribed to people.

If you know who you are and are ok with that then life can be a smoother ride. Can be.

People are fascinated by this for some reason, I find people who know or suspect they have something like severe social anxiety disorder for example much more interesting, going to extraordinary lengths to cover it up, avoiding eye contact at all costs but having to come up with elaborate ruses to do that, or elaborate stories why they have to have work breaks by themselves and so on basically having to come up with more and more elaborate stories to cover it up, trying to control their families and so on, what I find interesting is they know something is wrong but would rather try and cover it up instead of getting treatment.

Having an anxiety disorder is a painful experience and causes no end of suffering for the person who has it. It also doesn't mean that the person is 'trying to control their families'.

This is genuine, even if a particular post reminded me - but internet trolls: people who devote years and years of their lives to antagonising via fake personas and fake views, and rejoicing in frustrating people (at best)... has to be something up with them mentally, surely?

Shur lots of us might post a piss-takey comment here and there, but sustained, lengthy campaigns... can't be healthy.

In the aftermath of the Phillip Kearns case, the family got more than one phone call along the lines of go to Tallaght garda station they have news of Phillip's disappearance can you imagine the sheer evil of tormenting the family like that, that sort of behavior existed before internet trolls.

It's lacking in empathy, which could be a personality disorder trait... or just someone getting a thrill out of being sh1tty.

Yeah trolls certainly behave like that but I don't even mean ones as extreme as those.

Hmmm. I think there are those out there who have a lot of shame and embarrassment due to how they perceive their families to be. It tends to be irrational, as in the family are regular people but they don't measure up to the expectations of the other.

There is something in that though which feels different to a person with an anxiety disorder. I say that while still maintaining there are shades of grey.

There are different types of anxiety disorders. You have OCD, agoraphobia, generalised anxiety disorder, panic disorder, social anxiety erm 🤔 a number of specific phobias. I'm not 100% on the phobias, I have one but that's my only experience.

Of all the mental health / personality disorders only one is socially abhorrent and part of a badly orientated moral compass and that is Narcissistic Personality Disorder. The others are more like genuine illnesses. In my mind could be described as horrible person disorder.

Sort of. Science sees psychopathy as a disorder but there is no diagnostic criteria for it in the DSM nor is there for sociopathy. So a person won't be diagnosed as being either. You will instead find anti social personality disorder.

They are considered to be separate but with some shared features. A sociopath does have a conscience while a psychopath doesn't. I have an interest in serious mental illness so am fascinated by those two in particular and how many of the traits 'normal' people exhibit.

Two years and a month is not several years.

Meghan Markle definitely fills a hate figure hole. The vitriol against her is incredible. Whatever about disliking, which is a different matter, this rage and hatred is on another level. It's bizarre. And it's for no good reason, just an enjoyment on the part of the rather deranged mob.

JK Rowling - well there is a reason for disliking her (she was perfectly reasonable in how she said it but it's a bitter pill to swallow) however it doesn't even slightly justify the viciousness - the lies, sexually violent language, the comparison of her with nazis... absolutely egregious, unhinged stuff.

Trump is a lot worse than the two of them - totally seems like some sort of psychosis when it comes to MM and JKR though.