Posted by Fallen4MyT on January 27, 2005, at 23:20:41
In reply to Re: Do you find you click with certain DX types?, posted by Dinah on January 27, 2005, at 23:06:07
Dinah good post and points but what made me see this tread was when people who I am friends with in person as well as on the web started telling me their dx..or I would read it posted i was stunned by HOW many BP people I befriend. Too many to be chance and dxes I did NOT know of when I first formed the friendships....thats what strikes me. I have friends and like and dislike people in almost all areas....maybe 2 here 1 there some never having a dx...but the number of BP buds I have is....HIGH....creepy high lol...MAKES ME WONDER...Am I on to something.
> I think I like people in different sorts of ways.
>
> People on the bipolar spectrum are among the most interesting, profound, and often bewitching people I know. I often find the same with people with borderline tendencies. But then I concieve of borderline personality disorder as being a subset of the bipolar mood disorder spectrum.
>
> But for a husband I chose someone with obsessive compulsive personality disorder (undiagnosed officially) who balances my flightiness nicely, no matter how much he annoys me at times.
>
> And some of my very best friends are unipolar depressives. They can be both truly empathetic (because they've seen the depths) and wonderfully stable to my more erratic eyes.
>
> My therapist, well there's no official diagnosis for it, but I think he's an old fashioned phlegmatic disposition. Nothing better for a therapist of mine.
>
> Euthymic (sp?) people scare me, but I can admire them from a distance.
>
> And I adore the schizoid/schizotypal/aspergerish people of the slightly geeky variety. They can be the most truly refreshing people I know. And often with the sort of wit I most appreciate.
>
> I can dislike individuals of any diagnosis, I think. Although if I try hard enough I almost always find something I can like and cherish in them. I fear I don't always try hard enough.
>
> Is there a diagnosis for the abrasive style of personality? Or do so many pdocs who make up the categories fall into it that they fail to see it as a personality disorder. I think I'm too southern not to be shocked and distressed by that style.
poster:Fallen4MyT
thread:448836
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/social/20050123/msgs/448963.html