What pisses me off about it all

I have AvPD and just got banned from the ASPD forum for arguing with them and disputing their medical orthodoxy and pedantry.

I got pissed off with people in BPD too for the same thing. I know that I'm obsessive about this because I have AvPD but I just get totally exasperated with trying to help people that won't even admit that they have a problem.

Now, here's the thing. If I go to a psychiatrist or a doctor I'll be too embarrased to admit that I'm insane and I'll just agree with him that I probably do have these traits but that they are quite normal, apart from the anxiety or depression that I could complain about as symptoms of what is actually a mood disorder. But it's just so easy to fob someone off with pills for those symptoms and they really do not treat the underlying problem.

NoM8s wrote:
I got pissed off with people in BPD too for the same thing. I know that I'm obsessive about this because I have AvPD but I just get totally exasperated with trying to help people that won't even admit that they have a problem.

I think you are projecting and that's why you're ruffling feathers and getting flustered. People in the BPD forum, we know we have problems, and we talk about our problems. You were getting mad originally because we were self-aware and talking about our problems. You likened it to us being proud and showing off our issues. There's also nothing you could do to help any of us, you're not our personal specialty trained therapist. I can't see anyone getting upset with you for not wanting to be pill-loaded unless they were just trolling. Personality disorders are not solved with pills, that's for sure, so not wanting to be drugged up for a PD makes complete sense.

mostlyghostly wrote:[quote="NoM8s"

I got pissed off with people in BPD too for the same thing. I know that I'm obsessive about this because I have AvPD but I just get totally exasperated with trying to help people that won't even admit that they have a problem.

I think you are projecting and that's why you're ruffling feathers and getting flustered. People in the BPD forum, we know we have problems, and we talk about our problems. You were getting mad originally because we were self-aware and talking about our problems. You likened it to us being proud and showing off our issues. There's also nothing you could do to help any of us, you're not our personal specialty trained therapist. I can't see anyone getting upset with you for not wanting to be pill-loaded unless they were just trolling. Personality disorders are not solved with pills, that's for sure, so not wanting to be drugged up for a PD makes complete sense.[/quote]


**mod edit**

And who do you think that you are to try to tell me that I can't help any of you when you go on a forum asking for advice and help from people who may have no medical qualifications apart from if you want to count clinical psychology? Yes my friend, I have academic qualifications and I could put letters after my name if I was that much of a pretentious twat, so you just have a little think about that.

This thread is drifting in a direction outside of anti-psychiatry which is becoming counterproductive. Also in regards to what moderators have said or done, please do not discuss this out in the open forum. Same as to what has taken in place in another part of psych forums. Any questions or concerns are welcome via PM.

As such I feel it is best to close this thread. My apologies.