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Wondering about the difference between having a reason not to live and not having a reason to live. Don't worry, it doesn't make much sense to me either. Other than there seems to be a definite distinction.

Also - on a related note - I think it's very sad, or pathetic, rather, if the only reason to live is for the benefit of someone else.

That said, and within the boundaries of AvPD, is it ...

You are a piece of cr** thinking you look good in that hat!

Your mask hides nothing but the shi* that you contain!

Hope you disappear

I was wondering if anyone thinks that dissociative disorders(not neccesarily DID) can present itself similar to Borderline Personality?

Hello all, this may be long, I appologise in advance..

My mother has always been over protective with me. I am an only child. I was never allowed to have friends growing up, never encouraged to do anything or go anywhere or to make something of myself. Was never allowed to go on school trips/leaving dance and never once been on holiday with my mum, basically she never took me anywhere apart from school or ...

You may have encountered this before.. a person who talks and talks and talks endlessly, sometimes for hours without letting anyone else enter the "conversation", not even their "listeners". There are no pauses or breaks, the topic is all about them and every last trivial thought they have that they can think of. If you look/walk away they keep talking as if nothing has changed. When you "rudely" cut in to ask a question or ...

It's too hard, pretending everything is ok when it's not. I have no siblings who will talk to me, no friends. My parents are ill and absorbed in that. When theyre gone, what will happen to me?

I thought this was interesting but not sure where to post it. Feel free to move.

Towards a new psychiatry: Philosophical and ethical issues in classification, diagnosis and care


http://www.biomedcentral.com/series/newpsychiatry

Sam

Hello there and welcome :D

Yes to me it is my sexual orientation and will always be thus.

I have a minor fetish attached to my attraction to preteen girls, which is an upskirt or no bottoms on fetish, but does that follow through to women, no, not even a little, I have not one jot of arousal towards women as I have found out through ...