a 20-year-old student diagnosed with BPD around July 2020, has always struggled with her mental health, her perception of herself, and her relationship with her emotions. For her, depression and anxiety didn't explain the whole story. "I was feeling so much but pretending to feel so little...
The smear campaignhas been called thetrademark of the sociopath, but it is not only sociopaths who exhibit this extraordinarily malicious behavior. Although the author links the distortion campaign to BPD, borderline personality disorder, it is also a characteristic of people who better fit the diagn...
Someone with GAD might then respond to this obsession by compulsively ruminating about the possibility of not getting the job they want, and then going broke, all in an attempt to resolve the anxiety that arose in response to the initial obsessive thought. Conversely, those with OCD exhibit ...
I define emotional maturity as the ability to make good, positive, healthy choices during the challenges of life. The following chart illustrates some of the differences in the mindset of someone who is acting emotionally immature vs. mature. ...
A Missouri teenager, Alyssa Bustamante, attended church and got good grades in school. But a troubled childhood and untreated mental health issues opened the door for her unprovoked, inexplicable killing of nine-year-old Elizabeth Olten.
dealing in strong labels has an effect on how we view our own behaviour and inner worlds. Also, if narcissismisa spreading disease, then surely no one is immune. To label someone as a narcissist requires the person doing the labelling to believe they are morally superior – good, in the ...
They’ll be completely lovely one day and the next you’ll be wondering what you’ve done to upset them. There often isn’t anything obvious that will explain the change of attitude – you just know something isn’t right. They might be prickly, sad, cold or cranky and when you ask ...
someone who is suffering intensely and possibly unable to function at all (if you haven’t had first-hand experience with someone who is acting batshit crazy, or who is actively planning to kill themselves, you may not understand this). Once some baseline sanity and quality of life is ...
Why someone needs to do that comes under the category of "If you have to ask then you really don't understand the issue so you're probably not ready to receive the explanation." But I'll try to explain it. We in printing have been writing PostScript files to disk...
One thingresearchhas told us about narcissistic tendencies is that manipulative behaviors and narcissism go hand in hand. If a person with narcissistic personality disorder knows they’re being grey rocked, they may try to use this against you. You don’t have to explain what or why you’re ...