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My Dr. Made Me Do It!

Permanent Linkby Jadedbutterfly on Thu Jun 22, 2017 3:46 pm

Yesterday was my first blog and I have read it over and over and fixed it in my mind a million ways. So I will back up and start with why I'm on here in the first place.
My Dr. told me I need to learn to talk to people without reading them, so I'm cheating. It's hard to read people well when you can't hear their tone of voice or see their body language. He didn't appreciate my brilliance but said it was a start. I figure it's a win for me either way - I either learn to communicate better or I learn how to read people through their writing. Again, he didn't appreciate my brilliance (but he did have to stifle a chuckle).
This looks like a good place to end. Way better than yesterday's "panic attack (menopause and ASPD) in writing" .

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Re: My Dr. Made Me Do It!

Permanent Linkby Snaga on Fri Jun 23, 2017 1:24 am

I thought reading people was considered a basic social skill? Or is it what you're doing with the information you glean?
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Re: My Dr. Made Me Do It!

Permanent Linkby Jadedbutterfly on Fri Jun 23, 2017 4:06 pm

[quote="Snaga"]I thought reading people was considered a basic social skill? Or is it what you're doing with the information you glean?[/quote]
Nature of the Beast - yes it is what I do with the info and how fast I am at it. Everything I do comes back to "what's in it for me". Even being on here and going back to a psychiatrist again is because I'm older and ill now and I need my life to be more peaceful but I don't know how to do that.
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Re: My Dr. Made Me Do It!

Permanent Linkby Jadedbutterfly on Fri Jun 23, 2017 4:21 pm

[quote="Snaga"]I thought reading people was considered a basic social skill? Or is it what you're doing with the information you glean?[/quote]
Nature of the Beast! Of coarse it's what I do with it. Everything I do in every situation is to my benefit or I don't do it. I supported myself and a pretty bad drug habit by talking people out of their money and possessions. I haven't committed a crime in years but I still follow the ritual I set into place along time ago. It's all just gotten exhausting! The research says that symptoms diminish with age so maybe that's part of what's going on with me. I just know I need some peace in my life and I don't know how so I am trying to learn. This site is one of the things I'm trying.
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Re: My Dr. Made Me Do It!

Permanent Linkby Snaga on Sat Jun 24, 2017 5:34 am

I can only imagine how tiresome that might become. Although I do see some of that same attitude in myself- but I suspect that's mostly because I'm OCD- we (pwOCD) tend to spend a lot of time in our head, glomming onto thoughts and questioning every thing we think. I could easily find all of the PDs in me, ha.

I'm not sure I was aware that the symptoms of AsPD tend to diminish- that sounds encouraging... since we grow old whether we want to or not...
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Re: My Dr. Made Me Do It!

Permanent Linkby Jadedbutterfly on Sat Jun 24, 2017 4:07 pm

[quote="Snaga"]I can only imagine how tiresome that might become. Although I do see some of that same attitude in myself- but I suspect that's mostly because I'm OCD- we (pwOCD) tend to spend a lot of time in our head, glomming onto thoughts and questioning every thing we think. I could easily find all of the PDs in me, ha.

I'm not sure I was aware that the symptoms of AsPD tend to diminish- that sounds encouraging... since we grow old whether we want to or not...[/quote]
I see a lot of me in some of the other PDs also. I would imagine we all can find similarities.
Yes, I was pleasantly surprised when I started on the research trail to find out that the symptoms diminish with age. I don't remember the names of all the articles and papers I read but I did write down the name of the one that first got my attention. It was on web md titled "Personality Disorders Can Change With Age". The only problem I seem to be experiencing is the emotions I'm not used to having. It can get a little overwhelming and when I get overwhelmed I tend to get pissed and that's never good. I've got a lot to work on that's for sure. (That's new too. Never cared before).
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Re: My Dr. Made Me Do It!

Permanent Linkby Snaga on Sat Jun 24, 2017 7:39 pm

I've always assumed the only thing that makes a PD, a (D)isorder, is that a person has too much or two little of things everyone has. So it makes sense to see a little of a PD in all of us. I remind myself of that, in case I want to obsess over the way I am about something.

Well I think it's interesting, this age related business. I can well imagine that if you're not used to feeling certain emotions, starting to experience them would be a bit of a trip.... I suffer (I think) from chronic (but not severe) depression, and I know the moments I feel completely content and happy- not happy on the outside, influenced by events, but truly content, through and through- I feel almost manic- a very odd sensation, and I wondered if it was a manic episode the first time until I realised no, I wasn't manic, I was simply not under my usual dark cloud of anxiety and hopelessness, for a whole minute. That's the closest analogy I've experienced, but I imagine it's something similar- you're like, whoa- where'd that come from?
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