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Whats your Disorder ?

  • 18-05-2012 11:38PM
    #1
    tempura
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 604 ✭✭✭


    I have just watched a programme on Discovery about a woman who is completely able bodied however she lives her life as a Paraplegic.
    Apparantly she has The condidtion which is known as Body Integrity Identity Disorder.

    It seems to me that these days physcoligists seem to have a need to put a new name on every weird thing that people seem to come up with, this seems like utter bull**** to me. For example , my boyfriend just said " If i wake up tomorrow and suddenly feel the need to break every cup in the house does that mean I have a Disorder ? "Crockery Hatred syndrome" or the like.

    It seems to make a complete mockery of people with real Disorders and Disabilities.


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  • #2
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,433 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    I have Obsessive Boardsie Disorder, Compulsive Boob Watching Disorder and Amazing Money Spending Disorder.


  • #3
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    I'm paraplegic, but live my life as a fully able bodied person.


  • #4
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Selective Mutism. I talk to people I like and I ignore everyone else


  • #5
    RobbingBandit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,669 ✭✭✭✭RobbingBandit


    i'm a crazy bastard


  • #6
    southcentralts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 833 ✭✭✭southcentralts


    I compulsively diagnose myself with ridiculous disorders I make up. Functioning fine in society until the days I cannot come up with anything and fall into a neurological abyss.

    sometimes I am afraid to type the letter .


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  • #7
    Fromthetrees
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,846 ✭✭✭Fromthetrees


    I get this wierd feeling every night of getting more and more tired, my eyes get heavy and then I just black out, it's not until many hours later when it's bright in the morning that I am able to open my eyes again, I remember nothing while this happens, I'm going to call it heavy eye syndrome. :(


  • #8
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,029 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    Pschiatritis:

    An irritation caused by psychiatrists.


  • #9
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,433 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    Fromthetrees wrote: »
    I get this wierd feeling every night of getting more and more tired, my eyes get heavy and then I just black out, it's not until many hours later when it's bright in the morning that I am able to open my eyes again, I remember nothing while this happens, I'm going to call it heavy eye syndrome. :(

    Sorry to tell you this, but it's chronic. It can affect you up to eight hours a day. And it's incurable.


  • #10
    cartell_best
    Closed Accounts Posts: 579 ✭✭✭cartell_best


    Always taking people at face value and always being proven otherwise


  • #11
    Stained Class
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,808 ✭✭✭Stained Class


    My wife says I have Selective Deafness when she speaks to me sometimes.


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  • #12
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    Stained Class wrote: »
    My wife says I have Selective Deafness when she speaks to me sometimes.

    Don't listen to her.


  • #13
    gravityisalie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 149 ✭✭gravityisalie


    If I drink anything with alcohol I tend to say stupid things and have a tendancy to wobble when I walk :-( tis terrible Joe


  • #14
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,009 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I have Borderline Personality Disorder, but me and my doctor are both dubious that the condition really exists. It's a very severe mental issue regarding relationships but it's quite vague. I'm just glad to have a label because without it, I wouldn't be getting the help that I am now entitled to. Suffered from depression so severe during my teens I am surprised I am still here.

    I also have ME, which wasn't diagnosed for 13 years, because I was told my fatigue was due to my depressive disorder.

    I also have a rare skin condition called Epidermolysis Bullosa Simplex. It's very mild in my case.

    I sometimes say I am Dee (BPD ME EBS) because I never got a degree so don't have letters to add after my name :pac:


  • #15
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    tempura wrote: »
    ..............

    It seems to me that these days physcoligists seem to have a need to put a new name on every weird thing that people seem to come up with,..........

    Yes, we long for the old days, and the simplicity of the language. 'Yer one with the knickers' or 'Yer man with the twitch' was good enough to describe patients for many centuries - why change now?


  • #16
    KKkitty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,537 ✭✭✭KKkitty


    gravityisalie wrote: »
    If I drink anything with alcohol I tend to say stupid things and have a tendancy to wobble when I walk :-( tis terrible Joe
    Your username is very apt for your disorder :)


  • #17
    Shryke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,199 ✭✭✭Shryke


    I think there is over labeling to be fair. It doesn't help that psychology tends to have fashions and trends.
    I'm not against psychology but it's seen as too untouchable sometimes.


  • #18
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,626 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    There was a good Horizon doc about how many mental disorders are misconstrued or misdiagnosed, and how people who don't actually lay within any of the diagnostic criterion are sometimes mistaken for those that do.

    A very fine line still exists between being mentally unstable and just acting out on impulse etc., and it's better to treat each case on its merits rather than its possible future manifestations or preconceptions of that.

    Mental health is a very personal thing and diagnostic criteria should really only be employed by those who are qualified to apply it in a way that helps the persons involved.


  • #19
    woodoo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,219 ✭✭✭woodoo


    At the extreme end of health anxiety.


  • #20
    tempura
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 604 ✭✭✭tempura


    Actually, am back tracking a bit now, think i've had this one myself !

    http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2011/10/paris-syndrome-a-first-class-problem-for-a-first-class-vacation/246743/


  • #21
    FreddysFace
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 62 ✭✭FreddysFace


    i wish i was watching the wicker man

    its time less come this evening hour


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  • #22
    uch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,035 ✭✭✭uch


    Obsessive compulsive Fapper (at Grainne Seoige)

    22/25



  • #23
    Mance Rayder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,007 ✭✭✭Mance Rayder


    This thread reminds me of how lots of skanger kids I grew up with and went to school with in coolock were diagnosed with ADHD , even though I knew for a fact that they were just little sh!ts.


  • #24
    FreddysFace
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 62 ✭✭FreddysFace


    CiscoStudent wrote: »
    This thread reminds me of how lots of skanger kids I grew up with and went to school with in coolock were diagnosed with ADHD , even though I knew for a fact that they were just little sh!ts.


    sorry darling, you lost me at coolock


  • #25
    Mance Rayder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,007 ✭✭✭Mance Rayder


    FreddysFace wrote: »
    sorry darling, you lost me at coolock

    You had me at darling:o.


  • #26
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,190 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    I disordered a pint ages ago ...


  • #27
    Trash Ninja
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 79 ✭✭Trash Ninja


    There's a book.

    It's called the DSM

    The Diagnostic Statistic Manual.

    It's the psychiatric bible.

    And if you (in fact anybody) reads it: You'll find at least 12 mental illnesses you're suffering from.

    Point is: If you can generally get on with life = you're ok.

    If you're looking for some greater meaning = become religious.

    Doesn't matter which religion, all imaginary friends are the same.


  • #28
    FreddysFace
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 62 ✭✭FreddysFace


    CiscoStudent wrote: »
    You had me at darling:o.

    *blushes*


  • #29
    Snowie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,048 ✭✭✭✭Snowie


    I've an OCD to over think everything ....


  • #30
    uch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,035 ✭✭✭uch


    Trash Ninja wrote: »
    There's a book.

    It's called the DSM

    The Diagnostic Statistic Manual.

    It's the psychiatric bible.

    And if you (in fact anybody) reads it: You'll find at least 12 mental illnesses you're suffering from.

    Point is: If you can generally get on with life = you're ok.

    If you're looking for some greater meaning = become religious.

    Doesn't matter which religion, all imaginary friends are the same.

    Is that you, Locky Locky?

    22/25



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  • #31
    cesc77
    Closed Accounts Posts: 874 ✭✭✭cesc77


    FreddysFace wrote: »
    *blushes*


    ffs you thanked the post already....


    Flirting and getting horny in AH is dangerous,dangerous I tell ye


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