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My closest friends aren't bothered much by it either, but they won't go along with it. And my wife is starting to see it as a game too. Maybe I'm rubbing off on her.  Nearly all of them are insensitive and sarcastic - the "No BS" type of people. Perhaps is just a personality trait of theirs... |
I'm curious, did your wife marry you before or after she knew of your diagnosis?
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What's-his-face from the Mentalist was diagnosed as a psychopath? What episode? I've only seen a few episodes, but he seemed a few degrees of evil shy of such a diagnosis.
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Season 4, Episode 4: Ring Around the Rosie
The guy who "diagnoses" Jane is the new team's boss and has a Master's in forensic psychology. However, I am a bit confused on that diagnosis because from what I understand, psychopaths don't typically have nervous breakdowns or become incredibly sad, yet Jane did with the serial killer Red John.
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I see what you're getting at... Although, everything's considered pathological nowadays...
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I cant argue there, in non-psychiatric medicine, there are many new diagnoses, although in psychiatry, there's more disorders added and removed. If you look through the proposed structure for the DSM-V, some disorders are added, and some have their names changed. An interesting change is to anti-social personality disorder, as it is proposed to being re-named dyssocial personality disorder, reflecting dissocial personality disorder in the ICD-10, probably because so many people were confused by the "anti-social" part, they thought ASPD was more like avoidant or schizoid personality disorders.
http://www.dsm5.org/proposedrevision...der-names.aspx
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I joined this site nearly two years ago. What reasons I had for coming here have changed numerous times since joining. I'm not trying to learn about anything in particular any more. I just like the discussions, and I do learn about myself and others in the process.
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I wasn't on this site 2 years ago, so what were your reasons for initially coming here versus the current reasons for remaining here?