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I basically do have a 'paranoid personality disorder', but it stems from a habit of over-intellectualising and over-analyzing everything, annoyingly including the minutiae of every day life and social interactions. The "unjustified suspicion of the fidelity of spouse or partner" is basically something that is giving me incredible anxiety and worry now, although there have been elopements in the past so I suppose the "unjustified" criteria doesn't quite apply to me here. All the other symptoms though, I find myself quite regularly fitting into. Don't have a problem with it, either. When I was younger I was diagnosed with bipolar depression, which was then later diagnosed in my pre-Uni days as just regular depression. 'Mental disorders' are just labels and categories, and don't really imply anything about sanity or public safety. As some people have expressed in their cynicism and skeptical remarks, a lot of it is just arbitrary systems and definitions drawn up by psychiatrists so they can develop a framework from which to generate money .

Last edited by Uzique (2009-07-20 12:50:50)

Macbeth wrote:

anyone else find these extremely broad and easy to put any person into for whatever reason.

No

Uzique wrote:

I basically do have a 'paranoid personality disorder', but it stems from a habit of over-intellectualising and over-analyzing everything, annoyingly including the minutiae of every day life and social interactions. The "unjustified suspicion of the fidelity of spouse or partner" is basically something that is giving me incredible anxiety and worry now, although there have been elopements in the past so I suppose the "unjustified" criteria doesn't quite apply to me here. All the other symptoms though, I find myself quite regularly fitting into. Don't have a problem with it, either. When I was younger I was diagnosed with bipolar depression, which was then later diagnosed in my pre-Uni days as just regular depression. 'Mental disorders' are just labels and categories, and don't really imply anything about sanity or public safety. As some people have expressed in their cynicism and skeptical remarks, a lot of it is just arbitrary systems and definitions drawn up by psychiatrists so they can develop a framework from which to generate money .

Ok fine, so you have a personality thatlends you be a touch paranoid, how does this translate into a DISORDER, it is just another personality, unique just like all of the other 27 gagillion personalities out there. Some good, some bad. For a DISORDER, you seem to be moving through life effectively enough.

Some people are assholes, some are saints, there is no syndromes or disorders, there are only personalities. Some are shitty some are not. This bullshit, IT AIN'T MY FAULT I HAVE A DISORDER" crap has been taken too far.

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Hurricane2k9 wrote:

Given by shitty doctors yes. As I said, good doctors don't throw drugs at everything. A while back I thought I might have had social anxiety disorder or something. I saw a doctor (who I still see on occasion just to check up, as I do have mild depression and need to take medication for that) and he didn't put me on medications. He told me to simply try hard to break out of my shell and guess what? It worked.

It's sort of like firearms. The problem isn't the guns or medicine, it's poorly trained owners/doctors.

Ok, are you agreeing with me, or disagreeing with me, kinda hard to tell.

You say agree it is happening, yet you keep trying to argue against me saying it is happening.

I'm saying it happens sometimes. At the hands of shitty doctors. Kinda like how courts sometimes put innocent men to jail, because of shitty proceedings.

As for "it ain't my fault I have a disorder", I kind of agree with your stance that it's a bullshit excuse. Except in the most extreme cases I think anyone can overcome a disorder, usually with nothing more than counseling and talking to people who understand (friends are a good place to start. I can't tell you how many times I've kept a few of my friends from doing something self-destructive because I was there to lend them a hand when they reached out for help).

Last edited by Hurricane2k9 (2009-07-20 20:36:10)

AussieReaper wrote:

But you do accept the fact that some people do have genuine needs for anti-depressants, ritalin, etc?

no, I don't.

I think the solution to someones problem does not lie in mind altering drugs, it lies in dealing with or accepting or changing your situation.

When I was separated from my wife, and neck deep into a failing business, it was suggested that I went on anti-depressants. I refused and my reasoning was this.

Going through a divorce, lost home and failing in business, can't pay my bills without sacrificing eating, these are the things that SHOULD make you depressed. When dealing with bad things, you are supposed to feel bad. You are not supposed to take drugs to help you pretend that things are not as bad as they really are.