Posted by capricorn on April 15, 2006, at 20:16:54
In reply to Re: Irrationality and stress, posted by bassman on April 15, 2006, at 17:52:54
> I was embarrassed to ask if it was a personality disorder, but isn't it a charactersitic of personality disorders that people blame the external world and not themselves? Again, if you accept that, it's not a good fit...capricorn seems very much involved with the external world and willing to evaluate his/her role in it. The "I can love you one minute and hate you the next" is like BPD or HPD, though. I really wonder about the doc telling someone who is sensitive/volatile that they are 5-15 yo emotionally. Much nicer ways to say that without inflicting damage.
I blame a dysfunctional childhood(reserved conservative father and neurotic problem drinking/alcoholic? mother lots of arguing,verbal
and very occasional physical abuse )+torrid time at an English public school for f***ing me up.
A succession of crap pdocs just made it all a degree or two worse so yes the catalyst for me being a 'f***ed up individual was external.
However my own response to such adverse external factors has most probably left a lot to be desired.I've got the inate intelligence to work out 'what's what' but at the emotional level it's a whole different ballgame.
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