We all do. It’s natural. Yesterday I turned around about 5 minutes from home because I wasn’t sure I’d closed the garage door. We all want our homes, possessions, family and selves to be safe. But what happens when that drive for safety becomes overwhelming, affecting our everyday lives? Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is an anxiety …
Category: Psychology
Histrionic Personality Disorder – One of the Claims Arising from the Penn State Pedophilia Trial
The Huffington Post reported here that the lawyers for accused pedophile Jerry Sandusky have claimed Histrionic Personality Disorder may be a factor in his behavior. This diagnosis would not mean he’s medically incompetent, nor does it mean he is insane, rather his ‘behavior has another label than pedophilia’. Histrionic Personality Disorder is one of the …
You Don’t Have a Personality Disorder, Do You?
Given the comments on the last few blogs, I realized I should probably put in some introductory comments, just to ensure we’re all on the same page. Personality disorders have been defined as the cause of long term patterns of inner experience and outer behaviour that deviate from the expectations of society. They are all-encompassing, …
Don’t You Hate it When Someone Says They’ll Do Something, but Don’t. Ever
I so enjoyed writing about psychopaths last week that I decided to take a look at some other personality disorders. They’re a fascinating bunch of behaviors that drive the rest of us ‘normies’ totally crazy. The problem is, as we noted with Psychopaths, often people with these disorders live very ordinary lives although the people …