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Hello,


I've recently tried twice to take this test: http://glennrowe.net/BaronCohen/Empathy%20...%20tient.aspx



It's from the NPD forum...........but i'm not interested in your results.


I'm interested, in whether you can take the test............I can't seem to at all.

Hi everyone

I feel really anxious about coming here to ask this, I feel like I am intruding where I shouldn't be, and I hope you won't be offended or want to run me off the site.

I'm a student in my first year of a mental health nursing course in England and have a strong professional interest in BPD. At the moment I am attempting to write an assignment on the subjective experience of ...

I haven't been doing well lately. I came very very close to self harming yesterday. I had some seriously depressing events happen this week and I dealt with it alright I guess. It's weird.. it's almost as though I'm going sort of numb and not feeling the emotions as I should... except for last night. I broke down for about 20 minutes. My mother is an emotionless person. Any emotion she shows is as fake ...

Well, I am now falling into deep depression. I don't even think that all the medications in the world could pull me out.

Something serious has happened at work involving my boss, and I would say more, but I don't know about how the confidentiality agreements work, and what they may have us sign, but our jobs are in jeopardy. I will find out Tuesday, as our area manager just called to say they would ...

I came across this recently released 10-yr study that is relatively optimistic on treatment of BPD. The following are bite-sized pieces that I've taken from the paper (any italics are my additions) which can be fully reviewed via this link http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3158489/?tool=pubmed.

[quote="Ten-Year Course of Borderline Personality Disorder
Psychopathology and Function From the Collaborative Longitudinal Personality Disorders Study
by Dr. John G. Gunderson, MD, Dr. Robert L. Stout, PhD, Dr. Thomas H. McGlashan, MD, Dr. M. ...

Nothing like an empty bottle of wine and an empty packet of panadol.

Weow, dizzy.. Shame it doesn't take the pain away. Bring on liver failure.

Fcuk it.

I have a question. You see, Im starting to think Im the least charming borderline out there. I'm terrible at relationships. I manage to get with guys (mainly using my eyes and boobs), but once they get to know me, I repel them. Like most people with BPD, Im what you call a chameleon. Im what every guy I meet wants, yet something lets me down. They tell me theyre attracted to me, and originally ...

She is driving me insane...

I'm diagnosed borderline and PTSD and I'm pretty sure she has something going on.. Mostly on a Histrionic kind-of level, though I don't know if she would actually be diagnosed with anything. Whatever. Anyway, the bottom line is that she is toxic. Always has been, but I never noticed it because I grew up with her and it seemed normal. For as long as I can remember -- and up ...

Anyone else have a mental health professional use the term with them?

During my diagnosis yesterday, going over my test results I spiked very high in a category and my psych said it's unofficially referred to as Philosophers Syndrome. It is to live out your life in your head hiding behind intellectualization instead of living outwardly and allowing emotions to come into play during daily life.

Not only was that really interesting to hear, but ...

I am so hard on myself. I feel that I must do everything perfectly and be the perfect person for me to be allowed to exist. I can't even begin to do things perfectly, so I am in a perpetually guilty and intensely fearful. I feel so guilty that my husband is supporting me financially, I just feel that I am lazy and worthless. I am beginning to come to terms with the fact that ...