For Burafan.

[philthygeezer]

You need to click on the following link and read this from beginning to end.

Burafan, you need to read this so click here.

Perhaps this will offer some clue, perhaps not. I offer it as a parting gift. Now go and do what you will with it.

Even if what you read doesn't sound like you, it sounds like you need a visit with an MD to get straightened out. So go anyway. If nothing is wrong, then nothing is lost. If something is wrong, then you've gained the world.

Goodbye and good luck. I'm not your friend, but you may make some down the road when you fix your ****.

 

[Ferrous Wheel]

Save me wife, well, that and therapy.

Best Jaco story of all. Thanks fer sharin, Phil. Chilling description fer those of us who don't have it. Gives you a gritty taste of the thing.

I'll have my wife give it a read.
Keith

 

[hollowdweller]

My Diagnosis would tend more toward Borderline Personality

A pervasive pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, and affects, and marked impulsivity beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by five (or more) of the following:

*frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment. Note: Do not include suicidal or self-mutilating behavior covered in Criterion 5.
*a pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships characterized by alternating between extremes of idealization and devaluation

*identity disturbance: markedly and persistently unstable self- image or sense of self

*impulsivity in at least two areas that are potentially self-damaging (e.g., spending, sex, substance abuse, reckless driving, binge eating). Note: Do not include suicidal or self-mutilating behavior covered in Criterion 5.

*recurrent suicidal behavior, gestures, or threats, or self-mutilating behavior

*affective instability due to a marked reactivity of mood (e.g., intense episodic dysphoria, irritability, or anxiety usually lasting a few hours and only rarely more than a few days)
chronic feelings of emptiness

*inappropriate, intense anger or difficulty controlling anger (e.g., frequent displays of temper, constant anger, recurrent physical fights)

*transient, stress-related paranoid ideation or severe dissociative symptoms

 

[munk]

Ok, diagnosis from the sidelines is a no no. Phil has correctly offered advice for BF to look into it. That's about it.

Remember, with or without an official 'jacket' from the DSM4, there is no avoiding a hard time of self appraisal. There may be no 'imbalance' as correctable by 'modern' methods. These subjects should be tread lightly. Take a pill and be OK gives possibly a false hope.

I appreciate very much the personal experiences some of you have shared. Let's leave this alone now. BF doesn't need a salad bar of choices.



munk

 

[Rusty]

Whatever the problems, Burafan can't move on, until he recognizes that he is the one who has a problem within, amd then takes responsibioity for getting himself help.

Which I devoutly hope he finds the courage within himself to do.

And thanks, Munk.

 

[hollowdweller]

Originally posted by munk
Ok, diagnosis from the sidelines is a no no. Phil has correctly offered advice for BF to look into it. That's about it.

Let's leave this alone now. BF doesn't need a salad bar of choices.munk

OK. Sorry.