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One thing that annoys me is how often someone is portrayed in the media as borderline autistic, or having Aspergers. Borderline Personality disorder or Narciss
by neurotech1 16y ago
One thing that annoys me is how often someone is portrayed in the media as borderline autistic, or having Aspergers.
Borderline Personality disorder or Narcissism would be closer to the mark.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borderline_personality_disorder http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borderline_personality_disorder
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism
When I worked around more therapists(I worked as a qEEG tech) it became apparent that some are the worst offenders when it comes to "inability to respect social norms"
- inboulder 16y agoNot that I disagree, but "inability to respect social norms" is basically part of the definition of Borderline Personality disorder or Narcissism, so saying as much is basically tautological.
- barrkel 16y agoBasically that's what he was saying: that Aspergers or borderline autistic are basically less accurate descriptions than BPD etc.
- neurotech1 16y agoThe "inability to respect social norms" is more an issue for the therapist than their supposedly Asperger's patients.
- philwelch 16y agoOne thing that annoys me is internet comment threads speculating about the mental health of people the commenters have most likely never even met.
- zeemonkee 16y agoThere was a psychiatrist that was hired by the US govt in WW2 to analyse Hitler. Despite never having met him, and not being a military man, the psychiatrist (I forget his name) predicted Hitler's strategy for the rest of the war - and the eventual suicide, having brought Germany to ruin. So it's not always necessary for an analyst - a good one that is, not an armchair amateur - to have met their subject in order to perform a successful analysis.