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Posted: **Thu Jul 03, 2008 3:04 am**

On psych meds = crazy
Not on psych meds = potentially crazy with a 60% chance of normal

Posted: **Thu Jul 03, 2008 3:41 am**

Antero wrote:I like how a person calling themselves givemenoughrope made a thread called "Are all women crazy?" The irony is delicious.

Give 'em enough rope. How's it taste now?

Posted: **Thu Jul 03, 2008 8:21 am**

Bradley R. Weissenberger wrote:

Holy shit, it's Brad from Droids Attack!

Posted: **Thu Jul 03, 2008 8:40 am**

pwalshj wrote:I also learned that I needed to actively pursue women that I am interested in and not lazily accept any one that comes along. I also learned that I needed to be a grown man and quickly and maturely end any relationship when "red-flags" crop up. Not stick my head in the sand until the storm blows over like an immature idiot. Me, again.

These were lessons that I clearly needed to learn and my life has improved immeasurably since I decided to stop saying things like "women are all crazy" and started to say things like "I should really spend some time meeting intelligent woman and eventually settling down with the right one".

wise words. in the middle of this myself.

you just can't live another person's life for them. either you can live with how they deal or don't deal with their shit or not.
still hurts watching my ex (& still dear friend) not take care of herself.

edit: i just read the part where your gf stood up for herself at work. salut to her.

'nother edit: i know i'm always throwing in the odd german reference, but might be interesting to the teutonophiles among you. in german, frauenversteher, "womanunderstander", is used as an insult among zeh mens. :lol:

Posted: **Thu Jul 03, 2008 9:33 am**

Bonham lives! wrote:i don't know that i can agree with the sweeping generalization, but i do know that someone posted what looked to be the factors of borderline personality disorder, which occurs much, much more frequently in women than in men.

here you go...

Diagnostic Criteria

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:

1. frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment. Note: Do not include suicidal or self-mutilating behavior covered in Criterion 5.
2. a pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships characterized by alternating between extremes of idealization and devaluation
3. identity disturbance: markedly and persistently unstable self-image or sense of self
4. 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.
5. recurrent suicidal behavior, gestures, or threats, or self-mutilating behavior
6. 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)
7. chronic feelings of emptiness
8. inappropriate, intense anger or difficulty controlling anger (e.g., frequent displays of temper, constant anger, recurrent physical fights)
9. transient, stress-related paranoid ideation or severe dissociative symptoms
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Having read about BPD because my ex-wife and someone else I knew had been diagnosed as such, BPD is more common in women because men who undergo similar traumatic childhoods as women have tend to get sociopathic personality disorder. It is thought this has something to do with societal conditioning and different societal expectations of mens behavior versus womens behavior.

Sociopathic personality disorder is really not that much different from BPD. In both cases, those diagnosed are very manipulative, really don't much care how their behavior affects others, and have no real conscience when it comes to how they treat others. They both have anger control issues, but in BPD in can be more self-directed (self-mutilation, suicide attempts, etc), while in SPD the anger is more directed outwards at those around them.

Posted: **Thu Jul 03, 2008 10:06 am**

DrAwkward wrote:
Bradley R. Weissenberger wrote:

Holy shit, it's Brad from Droids Attack!

That is mean. Maybe Brad's older, fatter, stylishly dressed uncle at best.

Posted: **Thu Jul 03, 2008 10:48 am**

Bradley R. Weissenberger wrote:
givemenoughrope wrote:Are all women crazy?

No, not all women are crazy.

But I tell you what -- I'm crazy for the nickname "King Of All The Taverns".

NOTE: I'm not makin' up shit. If you call me "King Of All The Taverns" when you next see me, then I'll give ya a buck. To hell with Little David Wilkins -- I want that title.

"King Of All The Taverns".

It's mine.

If I ever meet you, you shall be called..."Koko."

Posted: **Fri Jul 04, 2008 2:23 pm**

We are all mentally deranged.

Posted: **Mon Jul 07, 2008 1:34 pm**

Being a current victim of a female stalker, yes, I do think some women are crazy...hysterical even.

Most are pretty normal however, and some are even really cool!

Posted: **Mon Jul 07, 2008 1:40 pm**

matthew wrote:Being a current victim of a female stalker...

Catholic priests are male. That's a dude.