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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Hey I like this! You know autism occurs much more frequently in men. Let's see what astute conclusions we can therefore draw.
Diagnostic criteria for autism:
1. Compulsive behavior is intended and appears to follow rules, such as arranging objects in a certain way.
2. Sameness is resistance to change; for example, insisting that the furniture not be moved or refusing to be interrupted.
It's important that you don't stack them because they could get too pressurized
3. Stereotypy is apparently purposeless movement, such as hand flapping, head rolling, or body rocking
Repetitive, arrhythmic, self-stim.
4. Restricted behavior is limited in focus, interest, or activity, such as preoccupation with a single television program.
Shall we check that average daily post count?
