the reason why i prefer to have meaningful discussions on the boards is so that other people can weigh in on the discussion. if the discussion is conducted by PM then other people don't get the opportunity to benefit from it.

you are of course welcome to PM me if you would like to do so. maybe there is something you would like to say that you don't feel comfortable on the boards.

it isn't very often that i will get involved in an in depth discussion via personal message, however.

hey gg. chronic and pervasive... that kind of means if you are dx'd with a personality disorder then you are regarded as chronic by definition, huh. i suppose that pervasive means something like 'across a lot of contexts' and maybe that is what you are getting at with the 'chronic' thing too.

sure. it does make sense to me. guess i'm a big fan of the continuum view, however.

thinking about how to reconcile the 'inner malfunction' criterion with the acknowledgement that disorders can be a matter of degree. can inner malfunctions be a matter of degree??? hard to see how...