February 25, 2004

  • I took this web-based personality disorder test, and was not at all surprised by the results.

    It said I was highly schizotypal but not at all schizoid, which makes sense because I'm freakin' autistic. The rest of the 'high' and 'very high' ratings (narcissistic and avoidant disorders) come about as misdiagnoses of symptoms of Asperger's, and the fact that the questions themselves are yes/no questions with very little room for an answer besides the one that shunts you to one of those diagnoses.

    So color me in as someone who objects to the term 'personality disorder.' There's nothing wrong with my personality; you'd have a similar one if you were as screwed up as I am.

    I often wonder how many people there are out there who have high-functioning Asperger's (a neurological disorder) but are dutifully trying to get to the bottom of their personality disorder.

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  • I don't disagree with the term "disorder," though I think it would be more appropriate to term it a mood disorder (as opposed to a personality disorder).

    I was diagnosed schizoaffective when I was fifteen.

    I don't think it had anything to do with my personality, though it did control my social behavior.  I thought of it, instead, as an illness.

    I also think that things like this can be cured or diminished in time.  My diagnosis a decade ago was pretty severe.  I used to cycle through episodes several times a week back then.  Now, I only go through them perhaps six times a year.  And that's an outside figure.

    I could be wrong.

  • A 'personality disorder' is generally thought to be psychological. That is, you have a personality disorder in reaction to situations in your life, or as a function of improper development, or other such value judgements by psychological prophessionals.

    In that regard, such a disorder could work itself out to being 'cured' or at least diminished over time, as a result of dealing with whatever situation caused the disorder in the first place. Time heals all wounds, perhaps.

    The point here being that, for someone like me, there's basically no point in taking a 'Which Personality Disorder Do You Have?' quiz on the web. There's no way it can answer the question it asks, because it's not nearly as smart as the seemingly infinite progression of shrinks who all failed to diagnose me properly.

  • -->seemingly infinite progression of shrinks who all failed to diagnose me properly.

    Which just brings up all the time that's been wasted by looking at things the wrong way.

    I knew what was wrong with me two years before I was diagnosed.  Guess they don't know everything. :)

  • Ok, I really have to see the therapist because I get the same fucking results almost everytime I take that one...rargh.  have I mentioned that my therapist is entirely too incompetent and I hate her and I think she's got me all, all wrong and will mess this up and by extension my entire life and because I'm on the state's "health" plan my choices are really limited?

    (and can I admit that I'm a little afraid of dealing with this?)

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