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renemain
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02 Oct 2011, 2:03 am

Um my brain.
I've never held a job for more than a year, which is one of the things they look for.



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02 Oct 2011, 3:04 am

renemain wrote:
Um my brain.
I've never held a job for more than a year, which is one of the things they look for.


Sorry I got the impression you were functioning quite well.



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02 Oct 2011, 8:24 am

well, yeah. I tend to give the impression to people that I am just fine.
But people can't see the issues I'm actually dealing with in my own mind. I've had to learn to fake my normalness to live this long.



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02 Oct 2011, 4:32 pm

DC wrote:
renemain wrote:
Also. I have been. Diagnosed as having.
A psychotic disorder
And aspergers disorder.


Interesting.

Is it possible you have been misdiagnosed? If you read up Baron-Cohen's theory of mind, autism and psychopathy are almost exact opposites. Hard to see how you could be both at the same time.

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"...I contrast people with autism to psychopaths who show the mirror opposite profile. Psychopaths have intact cognitive empathy (they can tell their victim is in pain, know what might cause this particular person pain, and can deceive people easily) but they have impaired affective empathy (they just don't care). People with autism in contrast find it hard to read other people, tend not to deceive others, and are upset by others being upset."




:huh:


I am familiar with Simon Baron-Cohen's work also, it was one of the reasons I was questioning your diagnosis, albeit rather more clumsily :oops: It would be possible for some form of psychosis to exist as a comorbidity however. They may not have specified a particular psychotic disorder because they are not sure themselves of the precise cause and nature of your psychotic symptoms. Remember that whatever labels they give you, you are still you.



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02 Oct 2011, 8:54 pm

Symtpoms are always worth more consideration than labels. Work on the symptoms that are getting in your way and leave the ones you either like or don't mind so much.



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04 Oct 2011, 5:24 am

DC wrote:
LittleBlackCat wrote:
As I understand it, psychopaths are by nature manipulative and deceptive. IF the diagnosis is correct, it is possible that Renemain has not given a full and accurate picture of his life. I am also unsure of the purpose of his post.



Try watching the horizon program, 'good or evil'.

A researcher studying serial killers managed to pin down 3 factors that go into making a serial killer.

1. Psychopath
2. Possessing the 'Warrior' gene
3. Early childhood abuse and violence

The researcher himself discovered during doing the research the he was a psychopath AND he possessed the warrior gene but turned out to be a productive non violent and non manipulative member of society.


I watched that programme and found it very interesting too. At the end, I felt like I was like the polar opposite of a psychopath. I posted about it on here in a thread about TOM. Any CSI fans will know all about the character Ray. I realise it's fiction, but it is based on real DNA findings.