Trauma – PTSD

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Has anyone seen this movie? Some the things in the movie made me worried if I have the same or similar disease she was told she had. I could relate to what she felt. I looked up borderline personality disorder and found others similar to it. I don’t know if or which one I have but most of the symptoms these disorders list describe me perfectly. Im 28/m, I never had a girlfriend and am very quiet, Its hard for me to talk to people and I have no close friends.  I bought the book the movie was based on and am reading it now. Can anyone relate to what Im saying?

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I know what you’re saying-if you look up bipolar-I’m sure you’ll see alot of you there as well…as I did (along with PTSD, paranoia, co-dependancy, and of course boderline (though I don’t hurt myself and never did, etc) etc, etc…if I went and labeled myself every single thing that had a little (or in a lot of cases…A LOT) of me in it…I’d be labeled real f-ed up (as would anyone and everyone who did that). Because reality-there are a little bit of those describtions in everyone…granted some may not be as heavy or long lasting but no one in life is perfect. We all deal with issues at one point or another. I try not to deal with the label(s) of things (because it’s hard to stay focus on what or who you REALLY are vs things you may or can experience) but the situations at hand…(we connect because of the situations/feelings…not the labels given them) I belong to many many different groups (some I read as religiously as some read the/a bible…others I read here and there, depending on the mood for the day or week or episode, etc) and I fed off of the information I’m finding there along with my own reads off those groups…on the ‘net, in books and soon to be in therapy, as I called today). Not only does it help me to know me (again not the labels but the situation(s) at hand) but other people as well… And because you see yourself a lot in certain descriptions-doesn’t mean you medically are that description…one shouldn’t self-diagnose oneself…see a psychologist/therapist… again-I can’t label myself anything but I do read a lot of different areas (from manic, borderline, PTSD, etc, etc) because when I have certain feelings about certain things…those are who will understand best and relate best. Even if I’m techn., am not bipolar or PTSD. Hope that made sense… Again, I personally, deal with and look at the situations/feelings…not the label that’s given to them… Paula >>Has anyone seen this movie? Some the things in the movie made me worried

if I have the same or similar disease she was told she had. I could relate to what she felt. I looked up borderline personality disorder and found others similar to it. I don’t know if or which one I have but most of the symptoms these disorders list describe me perfectly. Im 28/m, I never had a girlfriend and am very quiet, Its hard for me to talk to people and I have no close friends.  I bought the book the movie was based on and am reading it now. Can anyone relate to what Im saying?<<

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Scott Robertson wrote: > Has anyone seen this movie? Some the things in the movie made me worried > if I have the same or similar disease she was told she had. I could > relate to what she felt. I looked up borderline personality disorder and > found others similar to it. I don’t know if or which one I have but most > of the symptoms these disorders list describe me perfectly. Im 28/m, I > never had a girlfriend and am very quiet, Its hard for me to talk to > people and I have no close friends.  I bought the book the movie was > based on and am reading it now. Can anyone relate to what Im saying?

Well, I haven’t seen the movie, but I can relate to the being diagnosed by looking up a disease.  I seem to somewhat fit the descriptions of Asperger’s Syndrome and Schizoid Personality Disorder.  But what they call "symptoms", I’ve always thought of as mere aspects of my personality.  I don’t feel like it severely impairs me from doing what I want to do, so I don’t worry about it.  Like Paula (PAdams) said, they’re just labels. –Adml. Celebok http://home.earthlink.net/~celebok

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I can totally relate to what you’re going through. I saw the movie after I read the book. At different times, I had to put it down and try not to cry. I’m terribly shy. I don’t really have any close friends and find it hard to interact with my co-workers. The self-awareness is killing me. I don’t think I have a borderline personality disorder, I think I suffer from social phobia because of the way that I think about myself, which has gone on for so long that its hard for me to get out of it. I excel in giving presentations and doing a live proposal, but it’s the social part I’m totally not good at.

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"Scott Robertson" <sar-…@webtv.net> wrote in message

news:11699-3A8837E4-23@storefull-616.iap.bryant.webtv.net… > Has anyone seen this movie? Some the things in the movie made me worried > if I have the same or similar disease she was told she had. I could > relate to what she felt. I looked up borderline personality disorder and > found others similar to it. I don’t know if or which one I have but most > of the symptoms these disorders list describe me perfectly. Im 28/m, I > never had a girlfriend and am very quiet, Its hard for me to talk to > people and I have no close friends.  I bought the book the movie was > based on and am reading it now. Can anyone relate to what Im saying?

Scott, I thought that the whole point of the movie was that she was hospitalized for having the disease of the week, and all that was wrong was that she didn’t feel comfortable in her own skin, just like most people do from time to time. In short, she was hospitalized for not meeting expectations. I took it as a comment on the way that we pare down our expectations to a very narrow and fictious realm called "normal", and then punish ourselves for not fitting in. Jason

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