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Originally Posted by Stardustedforever
Michael, our resident Psychopath (and might I add a very good writer) would know more about this issue.I thought I had ASPD because there are some people in my life I really do wish would die. If they were dead, it would make me feel better. Relieved. However, I do care about the feelings of the people. I enjoy making others feel better. I don't have any interest in lying or manipulating people for fun. I can be manipulative but that's only because I feel great pain and I need to do what I can to help get through the pain.
Read both the disorders of BPD and ASPD and see which category you feel is your primary diagnosis. The thing with personality disorders is that most people have a primary one and traits from all the others.
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Thanks.
I had psychological testing done at my current facility and I came up as both BPD and ASPD (as well as my bipolar and EDNOS).
When I asked my therapist why, she said that my manipulation, difficulty empathizing, and remorse fall outside the lines of that of BPD. While BPD is my primary diagnosis, the ASPD symptoms, they said, were at a range that could not be ignored. However, they are only directly treating the BPD at treatment.
I have no idea. When they've approached me on the issues stated above, I don't understand where I'm entirely wrong. However, I don't particularly like having ASPD on my chart, because my old therapist has now dropped me as a client because she said she doesn't treat ASPD patients. :\