I understand those phrases/descriptions


but what is the former Mrs. Bobbitt called?

Dangerous.

Kinky

That's why I make no secret of it.



My own diagnosis is bipolar II disorder, which isn't nearly as accute as Bipolar I, and not to be confused with being bisexual. It just means that if I were a 45 vinyl record, sometimes the record player plays at 33 and other times at 78. Like that TV show Monk, it is a gift and a curse. It's a gift for my career and often it's a state of hypomania that enhances creativity in my inventions, but a curse when I face an unsolvable problem, up to the point that I realize it is unsolvable. In terms of humor, you never know what I'm going to say, which makes at least 2 of us.

To lump an illness like mine in with sociopaths, borderline, or antisocials would be akin to labeling someone with a common cold contagious and dangerous, but that's okay, because I probably wouldn't notice it or worry much if you did. It would just be an example of paranoia, leading me to wonder which of us was sicker.

The other diagnosis you describe imply severe psychological and physiological disorders, which are a much more accute and dangerous prospect, especially in terms of relationships. What amazes me locally, is how so many women attract, fall right into, and return to, the arms of an abuser, who is most commonly of the bpd (borderline) variety. This is certainly not a nice guy whining response, just an observation.

I, in no way, had the intentions of lumping all the mental illnesses together. I have worked in mental health as a social work intern, as I know more about mental illness then most lay persons. However, those that are bipolar generally do not have the same symptoms as those that are anti-social personality disorder. Anti-social personality disorder is very different than bi-polar that is why they are classified differently in the DSM (Diagnosis and Statistic Manual).

My last roommate had many of those

Thank God I have a good roomie now.

OH! You did get a new roommate! Good!!!

She might have been border-line personality disorder, which many females are diagonosed instead of anti-social personality disorder. But they run similar in characteristics. But border-line personality disorder, is more of the I either love you or hate you attitude.

I got fooled more than once by that one. A guy can feel like a king when someone who's borderline loves you. When it flips though, wow. You could invent the cure for cancer and would still be seen as a walking piece of fecal matter.

Yep. Border-line personality disorder is a trip. You are put on high, but as soon as they decide that they hate you... they hate you... some will also love you again and hate you again.

One way to tell if someone has border-line personality disorder is that if they have cut off ties to friends or families in the past but stated that they had no problems with family until one point.

So all used car salesmen are phycopaths I guess

if not, pretty darn close!

I have come across a few in my time.

People who have antisocial personality disorder are more criminal than crazy.

He might be looking for ppl on a FREE DATING SITE

No, not always. Some go their own life without actually comitting a crime but come close.

I wouldn't be surprised, I suspect one.

Perhaps I should have qualified that their behavior tends to be classified as more amoral than mentally ill.

People with APD tend to get caught more than psychopaths do.

Psychopaths are Anti-social personality. The term psychopath is generally no longer used as a mental health diagnosis, its anti-social.