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Schizoid Personality Disorder
- mox111 3y ago"The Divided Self" by RD Laing is interesting on this
- bhouston 3y agoWhy is this on the front page? This is a well known disorder and unrelated to anything in the news today from what I can tell.
- xk_id 3y agoThis site isn’t about topical events. In fact, the guidelines say that if the event is being discussed on TV, it probably doesn’t also belong here. Mainly, submissions are encouraged that are intellectually interesting.
- FollowingTheDao 3y agoSomeone with 15 karma gets this article on the front page yer I post this and nothing? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36680252 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36680252 What, is HN algorithm seeking psychiatric help?
- NavinF 3y agoTbh your title is pretty boring. Everyone already knows that "Everything Is a Quantum Wave"
- johnea 3y agoYour title is boring? Is that ad hominem? The point is the weird mix that shows on the front page versus not. The reputation system leads to an echo chamber that many consider boring.
- FollowingTheDao 3y agoNo, in fact many people do not think that "Everything Is a Quantum Wave" and I was involved in a long discussion about it the other day right here on HN. which is why I thought more people would see this. I know I have a bad rep here as my posting speed is severely throttled. But I realize I need to focus my attention on my unusual need to talk and post here.
- flashback2199 3y agoThat industry should be taken with a grain of salt, IMHO, because I'm pretty sure you can diagnose literally every person on Earth with _something_ in the DSM.
- DANmode 3y agoSo, something there, but the methodologies and understanding can be lackluster?
- flashback2199 3y agoYes, that's a good way to put it
- orblivion 3y agoMaybe some "disorders" in the DSM should just be considered personality types.
- darkclouds 3y agoYou'll be surprised what seemingly benign chemicals like calcium do to peoples personality's. I call hard water and strong black tea, liquid cocaine!
- SketchySeaBeast 3y agoNot a great argument - I'm pretty sure you can diagnose literally every person on Earth with _something_ in the ICD (International Classification of Diseases) as well (kind of cheating because mental health stuff is in there too, but still, even if you exclude that section).
- flashback2199 3y agoYou can diagnose someone with 20/20 vision and no sign of any eye problems with an eye disease? Do tell :)
- civilitty 3y agoWhy hello there hypochondria, my old friend…
- droptablemain 3y agoSounds virtually identical to any number of other so-called personality disorders brought to us by the field of psychiatry. This is all very subjective and one man's autist seems to be another man's schizoid.
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- LinuxBender 3y agoWhat is the progress on moving away from the DSM? [1] "NIMH funding to shift away from DSM categories" From that article it sounds like their are a number of people and groups that can't agree on the value of DSM categories but they will continue to use it. Was it sunk cost? Fear of admitting mistakes leading to malpractice? Numerous categories have been removed throughout the revisions. I recall they created some controversy when removing homosexuality as a disorder. What scientific methods are used to add, change or deprecate a category? [1] - https://www.apa.org/monitor/2013/07-08/nimh https://www.apa.org/monitor/2013/07-08/nimh (2013)
- neuroma 3y agoRDOC is meant to provide a more objective, interoperable and feature focused approach. But its not very accessible
- ssgh 3y ago> in which the schizoid individual can express a great deal of feeling and make what appear to be impressive social contacts yet, in reality, gives nothing and loses nothing ... secret schizoids ... enjoy public speaking engagements but experience great difficulty during the breaks when audience members would attempt to engage them emotionally. It makes me think psychiatrists have no clue what that schizoid type really is. Rather, they carefully document various semi-related mental qualities, put them in a box, label it DSM-42, and pretend they are doing science.
- xk_id 3y agoThere seems to be a good deal of armchair skepticism in the comments. Psychiatry relies on identifying patterns in the kind of data that the average person lacks: observations that can only be made within the special social contract of therapy, or cognitive profiles that are statistically rare in the general population. Plus, all psychiatric disorders are necessarily on a spectrum, but the severe end tends to be pretty obvious. Schizoid personality disorder for example looks like this [0] (as a side note, I’m not sure about the ethics of publishing this on YouTube). I think once you see a good example, you realise it’s a pretty well defined condition. [0] https://youtu.be/P2prjXdnfEU https://youtu.be/P2prjXdnfEU
- rimunroe 3y agoIt's wild how many people in here and elsewhere seem to be ignoring the "disorder" part and assume that any behavior that sounds like it matches the diagnostic criteria is qualifying, and either don't consider degree of impact on daily life or other disorders which might match them better. These aren't supposed to be treated like Myers-Briggs types.
- djaouen 3y ago[flagged]
- noodles_nomore 3y agoThanks for posting this. It's better than I remember.