Posted by Dinah on January 27, 2005, at 23:06:07
In reply to Do you find you click with certain DX types?, posted by Fallen4MyT on January 27, 2005, at 18:06:48
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.
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