"Self-defeating personality disorder"

[synthesis]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-defeating_personality_disorder

Did anyone else know this was a thing? It would explain a lot.

[Tablo]

Wow, that's a weird disorder.

[Kuppo Shakur]

Sounds like Marxism.

[praxis1966]

The OP wouldn't by any chance be a first year psych student? I only ask, because there's a phenomenon called "medical student syndrome" in which first year students in just about every field of medicine diagnose themselves with every disorder in their textbooks. Happened to me when I took a psych survey course at the local community college; diagnosed myself with every sleep disorder in existence...

Anyway, I have all of those criteria except number 7 and a "virtuous subtype with histrionic characteristics." Not that it means anything because it sounds a bit like medicalizing character flaws.

[leftace53]

Sounds like me.

"I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT PEOPLE LIKE ME AS A MEMBER" Marx, Groucho Marx.

[synthesis]

The OP wouldn't by any chance be a first year psych student? I only ask, because there's a phenomenon called "medical student syndrome" in which first year students in just about every field of medicine diagnose themselves with every disorder in their textbooks. Happened to me when I took a psych survey course at the local community college; diagnosed myself with every sleep disorder in existence...

Anyway, I have all of those criteria except number 7 and a "virtuous subtype with histrionic characteristics." Not that it means anything because it sounds a bit like medicalizing character flaws.

I was a first-year psych student, about four years ago, but dropped it. I think most disorders are present in most people to some degree or another, and of course they only become "disorders" when they overly interfere with your life. What I mean is that most people experience at least some symptoms of depression, obsessive-compulsion, anxiety, etc. at some point, but whatever causes those symptoms is stronger in some than in others.

In that respect, I'm very wary of the temptation to self-diagnose. It's more that I've read so much about various disorders and mental conditions since high school, but I'd never even heard of this one, and, like I said, it would explain a lot.

[Steve_j]

I actually identify a little too much with that one, i have quite a self destructive personality, drives the better half mad (poor lass). However i usually find a little solace in this quote.


It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society :)

[Stand Your Ground]

Sounds alot like me. I usually give up on shit before I even start. :(

[bcbm]

what kind of pills can you get for this?

[Admiral Swagmeister G-Funk]

I always feel critical towards personality disorders. It seems that there is a new one every decade or so, and many of them seem to just describe some fairly common personality traits and generalize them as being the symptom of a disorder.

According to a lot of these diagnostic criteria, I am obsessive, compulsive, anti-social, borderline, histrionic and many other things - I'll bet we all are. We all have disorders now! Or maybe we just live in a paranoid world that overly-analyses human behaviour and lumps people who are a bit different into categories, as in the people with disorders.

Others, such as post-traumatic stress disorder, I agree on.

[Widerstand]

I thought self-sabotage was pretty common in a lot of people with low feelings of self-worth, fear of success, etc. ? And this sounds exactly like self-sabotage for..the hell of it? Idk, the effects described certainly can be observed in some people, but wouldn't it make more sense to say it's more of a symptom of other disorders?

[Quail]

what kind of pills can you get for this?
Probably nothing fun :(

[synthesis]

ADD pills help.

[Ravachol]

what kind of pills can you get for this?

I'd think someone with this disorder would avoid pills 'cause, you know.... 'cause of the disorder..

[Nothing Human Is Alien]

Oppositional defiant disorder is the best. Because defying authority is a mental illness that requires medicine. :rolleyes:

[Admiral Swagmeister G-Funk]

Oppositional defiant disorder is the best. Because defying authority is a mental illness that requires medicine. :rolleyes:
This.

[synthesis]

I'd think someone with this disorder would avoid pills 'cause, you know.... 'cause of the disorder..

Yeah, you'd think... :D

[Pirate Utopian]

I have the opposite of this. I'm awesome and do everything without trouble.

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

Oppositional defiant disorder is the best. Because defying authority is a mental illness that requires medicine. :rolleyes:

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NoXion

Indeed. When I first came across it I was like, "what the fuck is this shit?" Sounds like the perfect "diagnosis" for right-wing psychotic control freak American parents to give their "unruly" teen.

[Ravachol]

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NoXion

Indeed. When I first came across it I was like, "what the fuck is this shit?" Sounds like the perfect "diagnosis" for right-wing psychotic control freak American parents to give their "unruly" teen.

This has been said before, just sayin' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madness_and_Civilization) ya know...