Personality Disorders

[rangerrebew]

Bipolar Disorder
Also called: Manic-depressive illness
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Bipolar disorder is a serious mental illness. People who have it go through unusual mood changes. They go from very happy, "up," and active to very sad and hopeless, "down," and inactive, and then back again. They often have normal moods in between. The up feeling is called mania. The down feeling is depression.

The causes of bipolar disorder aren't always clear. It runs in families. Abnormal brain structure and function may also play a role.

Bipolar disorder often starts in a person's late teen or early adult years. But children and adults can have bipolar disorder too. The illness usually lasts a lifetime.

https://medlineplus.gov/bipolardisorder.html

[Oceander]

Bipolar is more than just ups and downs.  The ups invariably lead to self-destructive behavior - the individual feels bullet-proof - and psychosis.   

[rangerrebew]

Personality Disorders
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Personality disorders are a group of mental illnesses. They involve long-term patterns of thoughts and behaviors that are unhealthy and inflexible. The behaviors cause serious problems with relationships and work. People with personality disorders have trouble dealing with everyday stresses and problems. They often have stormy relationships with other people.

The cause of personality disorders is unknown. However, genes and childhood experiences may play a role.

The symptoms of each personality disorder are different. They can mild or severe. People with personality disorders may have trouble realizing that they have a problem. To them, their thoughts are normal, and they often blame others for their problems. They may try to get help because of their problems with relationships and work. Treatment usually includes talk therapy and sometimes medicine.

https://medlineplus.gov/personalitydisorders.html

[Oceander]

Interestingly, some medications that were originally approved for use with epilepsy help with personality disorders.  An interesting and subtle link.

[Suppressed]

The cause of personality disorders is unknown. However, genes and childhood experiences may play a role.

@Oceander
@Victoria33

I think that's a bit misleading.  We have a pretty good handle on what leads to some personality disorders.  For example, perceived or real abandonment, or lack of connection to a parent is often tied to Borderline Personality Disorder and others. 

Note: I am not a mental-health professional.

[anubias]

On Parade...

[Oceander]

@Oceander
@Victoria33

I think that's a bit misleading.  We have a pretty good handle on what leads to some personality disorders.  For example, perceived or real abandonment, or lack of connection to a parent is often tied to Borderline Personality Disorder and others. 

Note: I am not a mental-health professional.

Some researchers believe that borderline personality disorder is about 40% to 60% genetic. 

[truth_seeker]

Many mental illness problems are brain chemistry.

That is why medication can help some or a lot.

[Sanguine]

And, many of these are what used to be called character flaws.

[Suppressed]

Some researchers believe that borderline personality disorder is about 40% to 60% genetic.

Yes, there are many that I think have genetic components, but it makes it sound like we don't know typical causes.  Not everyone who smokes gets cancer, and there's a genetic component, but we can say that smoking can often be a cause of cancer.

[Oceander]

And, many of these are what used to be called character flaws.

Hence "personality disorder" - but that does not vitiate the fact that these are organic disorders and not moral failings. 

[Oceander]

Yes, there are many that I think have genetic components, but it makes it sound like we don't know typical causes.  Not everyone who smokes gets cancer, and there's a genetic component, but we can say that smoking can often be a cause of cancer.

Genetics aren't binary. It's not usually a case always of you have it 100% or you don't, it's generally a genetic predisposition with one or more environmental factors - which may themselves not be psychological - triggering that predisposition.

There is often an element of "stickiness" that indicates an organic disease that may not be present with merely bad habits. 

[Gefn]

Bookmarking for later.

[Sanguine]

Hence "personality disorder" - but that does not vitiate the fact that these are organic disorders and not moral failings.

We don't know that they are organic disorders.  They may be, at least to some extent.

[To-Whose-Benefit?]

The cause of personality disorders is unknown. However, genes and childhood experiences may play a role.

https://medlineplus.gov/personalitydisorders.html

Medline can go soak its disease mongering industry corrupted head.

There are NO genetic factors involved in people's moods, thoughts or behaviors.

The Genetics of Schizophrenia

http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.0020212

Schizophrenia, along with all of Psychiatry's other BS Diagnoses is a Social Construct used to Profitably marginalize, demonize, and Control people whom other people may find offensive, PERIOD.

THIS, is what Psychiatry's antipsychotic drugs do to the brains of children (and adults).



Again and again, despite Industry pronouncements from these Quacks that School Shootings and Workplace Violence are NOT THEIR Fault, contradicting voluminous evidence to the contrary, get down with the ridiculousness of their defensive argument.

SSRI Stories.org deals with SSRI antidepressant problems

https://ssristories.org/all-posts/

The current paradigm, for decades, is that moods, thoughts and behaviors are produced by imbalances of brain chemicals or genetic predispositions.

However, they have Never proven any of those models, claiming instead that They Will, given Time, because those differences are so tiny that they haven't quite found them yet, but they will. Just keep the Research Grant Money Coming.

Psychiatry's Manufacture of Consent, The Chemical Imbalance Theory and The Antidepressant Explosion

http://psychroaches.blogspot.com/2014/06/psychiatrys-manufacture-of-consent.html

The Crumbling Pillars of Behavioral Genetics

http://www.councilforresponsiblegenetics.org/GeneWatch/GeneWatchPage.aspx?pageId=384

NOW, Psychiatry can't identify ANY Brain Chemical Abnormalities or Genetic Combinations Causing Behaviors which Psychiatry calls an 'Illness' because they're too tiny.

BUT, The Homicides and Suicides Psychiatry DOES Cause with their Drugs, Isn't Their Fault, IN SPITE of the MASSIVE, easily and well recorded/photographed deterioration of the human brain Psychiatry's Drugs DO CAUSE. See the jpg again.

[To-Whose-Benefit?]

If, for 1 second, you haven't come to grips with the fact that this entire Industry is a Clear and Present Danger to our very way of life, consider the following:

Govt. Mind Control Tops US Healthcare Spending.

http://psychroaches.blogspot.com/2016/05/govt-mind-control-tops-us-healthcare.html

If you haven't been there already, review my posts on This thread.

http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,249532.0.html

[rodamala]

Some researchers believe that borderline personality disorder is about 40% to 60% genetic.

A Borderline Personality Disorder diagnosis is 50% quack "professionals" gaslighting those foolish enough to trust them, and 50% stigmatic labling to encourage individuals to consider themselves a victim of a constructed bunch of bullshit.

@Freya

[To-Whose-Benefit?]

A Borderline Personality Disorder diagnosis is 50% quack "professionals" gaslighting those foolish enough to trust them, and 50% stigmatic labling to encourage individuals to consider themselves a victim of a constructed bunch of bullshit.

@Freya

Thank You.

And it's not just those 'Crazy People' panhandling on traffic islands.

It's everyone. The percentage numbers from the National Institutes of Mental Health are the best Happy Face the Industry figures it can get away with.

Get within reach, and you will get bitten.

Any Mental Illness (AMI) Among US Adults

https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/prevalence/any-mental-illness-ami-among-us-adults.shtml

The Industry peddles its pseudo scientific non-science (the actual word is Scientistic) Diagnoses on trust.

They're above reproach, naturally.

DSM IV Financial Ties To Industry

http://emerald.tufts.edu/~skrimsky/PDF/DSM%20COI.PDF

DSM V Financial Ties To Industry

http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1001190

They're bought and paid for, lock, stock and prescription pad.

[rodamala]

Thank You.

If you want to stay healthy, stay away from the doctor.

If you want to keep your guns, stay away from headshrinks.

You're welcome.

[Gefn]

If you want to stay healthy, stay away from the doctor.

If you want to keep your guns, stay away from headshrinks.

You're welcome.

And get a dog or a cat.
@rodamala
@To-Whose-Benefit?

Watching TPB also helps relieve stress. 

[To-Whose-Benefit?]

If you want to stay healthy, stay away from the doctor.

If you want to keep your guns, stay away from headshrinks.

You're welcome.

Everyone here has a mentally ill 'Personality Disorder', as a Conservative.

http://psychquotes.com/

Psychiatry's Views on Conservatives

"In August 2003, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced the results of their $1.2 million taxpayer-funded study. It stated, essentially, that traditionalists are mentally disturbed. Scholars from the Universities of Maryland, California at Berkeley, and Stanford had determined that social conservatives, in particular, suffer from ‘mental rigidity,’ ‘dogmatism,’ and ‘uncertainty avoidance,’ together with associated indicators for mental illness."
Source: B.K. Eakman, Chronicles, October 2004, pp. 28-29.
"Political conservatism as motivated social cognition" By Jost, John T.; Glaser, Jack; Kruglanski, Arie W.; Sulloway, Frank J. APA Psychological Bulletin, May 2003, Vol 129(3), p 339-375

Any questions on who they want to drug into being silent and obedient?  Don't think they have a different opinion of liberals or anyone who is outspoken or wants to improve society.  Read on for more!