what's the most ridiculous thing anyone's ever told you?

Really? If i ate a sandwich everytime i felt bad, well that would be waaay to many sandwiches. Then their advice would be, stop eating sandwiches

Pardon me for a moment while I vent. I've stumbled upon a site which is dedicated to perpetuating ridiculous myths and notions about me and my ilk. Borderline PD, ADHD, and Narcissistic PD get a lot of crap from this site too. In fact, most people with mental disorders of some kind usually fall under their idea of a "sociopath"... http://www.lovefraud.com/blog/

And now, it seems, their solution is to kill us! http://www.lovefraud.com/blog/2011/1...ce-your-order/ Good luck with that...

i was on a psych. ward, (needless to say i was delusional ). I told one of the interns that while standing up, i would close my eyes and be asleep.. Want to see? So i showed her, and she said i was acting out. At the time i believed that was what was happening.

Those people sound extremely paranoid. I'm very sorry these kind of websites exist, and that these people who write them exist.

When I told my cousin that I was BP and had PTSD she looked at me, started to back away and asked "Is it contagious?!" I told her no it's not. She then asked how I managed to catch it if it wasn't contagious Ever try to explain mental illness to a hillbilly?

When my NPD ex gf told me she loved me.

I have no problem using metaphors to describe her. Metaphors, similes, analogies. Whatever I can use to describe her abusive behavio, crazy making behavior. She was a pod person. An alien. A reptile? Maybe. Certainly an emotional vampire.
I expected to get a book from her for xmas entitiled... "To Serve Man"... it was a cookbook. Sure, I empathize with her plight. I know how she was abused in her childhood by an alcoholic father and a critical, demanding mother. I feel her pain. And I felt the pain she doled out to me and saw that which she inflicted upon her family. Fangs of a snake. Hisssssss!!!!

She was a narcissist, not a pod person.

hillbillys and white trash have a right to some respect too. it's not equivalent to being an inbred idiot. some of my relatives are much brighter than the bigots who discriminate against us. take a little care how you sling mud, please. in all sincerity,, Gus

Narcissists shalt not discriminate against the abused who tried bravely to love them only to be discarded because they failed to accept the abuse and ask for more.

Seriously, no offense meant. I just appreciate the use of metaphor and simile to make a point. A highly evolved element of human language it is. It is not to be taken literally as most would agree. She was not really a pod person. But acted like it. I am actually offended that someone would think I would disparage a person with a personality disorder (sling mud). I loved her but hated her pod person, alien like behavior. That is my world.. was my world. I will describe it as such. Thank you.

Hm. I'm just tired of being called a monster.

If I call anything "monstrous" it tend to be behaviour rather than a person. As to what I was told, "Just do something! Stop sitting around feeling sorry for yourself."

Thanks mom. Fortunately, she has learned some about what not to say, though she still lapses into unhelpful sayings at times.

I was in the emergency room on Tuesday because of a car accident, as I was being transferred to a different hospital, the nurse told the ambulance driver that I like to cut.

Duh! I don't LIKE to cut, it's something I have done, but not because i like it

A few years ago I wanted to change anti-depressants. My regular doctor was not available so I saw another doctor in his clinic. She pulled out the generic little "test". I did not even answer the questions honestly (I was suicidal at the time). I gave little vanilla answers. When she calculated my "score" at the end she said "You are too depressed for me to treat. It is not within my comfort zone to write you a new Rx." I was flabbergasted! I said "fine, I'll continue with the ones I was on." Nope wouldn't write me an Rx for that either. I do not recall how/why she related this to my regular doctor, but I got a call back later that day that he had written me an Rx for the old ones and made an appointment for me for the next week. It was written in my file after that that he would see me no matter what.

"Join the volleyball team, it'll help you stop cutting." ...What?! Thanks, Dad, but no thanks...

One time I was having really bad anxiety and I threw up a ton in the morning. My mom told me "You're not really sick, so school will make you feel better." First off, just because it was caused by anxiety doesn't mean I wasn't actually vommiting. And trust me, school did not help me feel better!

Silly parents. :P

I love you......ridiculous

Been told I am attention seeking and that I want attention just because of something silly. When I cut, I was told by my mum to just "stop". It's not easy to stop.

I agree, if it was so easy to just stop, don't you think we all would have by now? Of course is she sees it as attention seeking, then she probably figures you aren't doing it for any reason other than that... gotta love it

Some quotes I've found regarding psychopaths and sociopaths. I thought they were both amusing and relevant to the conversation. For all future references, "spath" is psychopath or sociopath.

"….may I jump in and give my observation to your question…..
THEY [Psychopaths] SUCK D*** AND WHATEVER ELSE IS NEAR THEM…
Ofcourse, they do this covertly….n all.
Hope that helps."

When I made the comment that I felt very little:
"If a spath would like to feel something authentic…..I would suggest to them…..pulling the trigger on a big semi…… reeeeaaaallllll close to their ears!"

"I think you know my take on [differences between psychopaths and narcissists]. The difference is the mask. N’s will not bother too much with masks. They feel entitled to do what they do. Psychopaths have quite an attachment to their masks because they know that if removed, you would see an empty space behind it, filled with the green slime of envy. People would shriek and run in horror. Can’t have THAT. So they play the nice, loving, sweet person. Of course they need to vent, so every once in a while they prepare the scene for a dramatic event where YOU caused them to throw a tantrum because of the way that YOU were behaving, etc…"

"[The link is] not very indepth but it generally agrees with my own thoughts. Again, because it’s a continuum it’s hard to pinpoint. A sociopath might hold down a good job and be well liked, but he has to take it out on his wife by beating her."

"thanks for the complements on my reply to the [Michael].
I have studied him on the site that he posts on. He does this at that site and the other posters believe that he is the 'spath with the heart of gold'. He gets off on their sympathy. So the response to him was a test and a rope. If he actually wanted to 'get better' he would have left immediately and gone to research the advice I gave him. But he proved that he didn’t by sticking around and posting, 'I’m still here.' [I did. Horrible, evil me ]
So, now I know that he has a schtick: post about how hard it is for him to be a spath and never know true love…. puke. It’s what he does at psychcentral and the empaths there just eat it up. Not as wise as we are.
His posts are meant to be disinformation to confuse people about what spaths really want. He said it himself at the psychcentral site: he is angry about the way the media portrays the spaths. His agenda is to change public opinion, one empath at a time. My spath called it 'planting a seed'.
Well my opinion is that spaths CAN change. But their hubris is so great that they see no need for it. The rest of the world should change so that they can keep wearing the same old soiled diaper the rest of their lives. The rest of us should just wear clothes pins on our noses and pretend it doesn’t stink."

All quotes courtesy of LoveFraud.com/blog. Clearly, something needs to change... It disturbs me just a little that so many people refer to this site for guidance and information on psychopathy. Granted, most of these are commenter posts. But the blog isn't much better, considering most the articles consist of sensationalized nonsense about alleged "sociopaths" (not diagnosed, of course), and the authors pointing their fingers at people in the media, claiming they are sociopaths.

You do have a point. After a couple of months, I finally stopped cutting. I hurt myself because I wanted to release my negative emotions. I felt better after I hurt myself, that's one of the reasons. I wish parents could understand. I guess people are just not caring.

that i must be healthy or very stable since i don't take meds.

heh.

Physicaian unable to find the cause of my current body jerking illness and telling everyone to lie to me that all my test results were in normal ranges. Even neurologist who had to turn his little conductor up to max so that I could feel my foot moving around, told me the conductions were in normal limits. These are foreign doctors brought here on contracts. They've already been paid. Now I'm not sayin the physician didn't make a difference because he did in changing all my medications (taken off my anti-depressant and have been bawling for 3 weeks...gotta do something about that).

But he even had the physio lie to me about stuff and why? Becaue I am apparently a neurotic not a depressive; however a non-mental health doctor could make such a call is beyond me. But to cover his *** he brought a phsychiatrist in for less than 15 minutes to make a diagnosis of normal. ME NORMAL? Even the Neuroogist was surprised at that. The very large leison on my fronntal lobe went into spasm...I have proof of that thing being there!

IDIOT!

Wow... What an ***... I think it's time to find a new doctor.

I often get told to pull my socks up
Also stop being miserable lol
I attention seek that is why I SI (yeah ok) That is why I do it so no one can see

My mom told me today that I am blowing things out of proportion when talking about the anxiety issues I have been having lately. I'm in physical pain over it. Clenching my jaw, stiff muscles, trouble breathing. She just totally blew it off.