MOST ANNOYING MENTAL ILLNESS POLL

Which one have you got

the real answer is: moderately tidy people who say "i have OCD"; people with a strong interest in something who "have aspergers"... and ADD.

^^^Good call.

Pyromania and narcolepsy are not annoying, and thus should get zero votes here.

sometimes when i fall asleep watching movies i attribute it to narcolepsy.

Munchausen's syndrome is pretty fucking annoying, whereas by proxy is cruel.

sometimes when i feel incredibly bleak i attribute it to depression. no, wait.

sometimes when i can't be bothered reading the preceding post i attribute it to add.

http://www.querix.com/images/v04_2/studio/st_42_fdes_form_item_radio_button_icon1.jpeg Oh FFS!

Bipolarity is only really annoying during mania, because you can just ignore them when they're down. It's not a consistent annoyance, it's very much the Alessandro Del Piero of mental health disorders.

multiple personality disorder can be annoying when the sufferers give their different personalities incongruous names like marsha and miss robinson and little rabbit.

^^^Used to go out with a girl who had MPD, one of her personalities was former Marilyn Manson bassist Twiggy Ramirez.

Still, better multiple personalities than no personality?

[zing retracted]

Borderline is a bit of a nightmare to be around.

^^

i voted 120 times for OCD and six more for multiple personality disorder

those 6 are seriously getting on my tits

Borderline and PTSD people can be really, really unpleasant to be around, but I wouldn't actually call them annoying. Asperger's will walk away with this, I think. Bummer it's not really a real illness.

sometimes when i compulsively start fires I attribute it to pyromania. people do seem to find it kinda annoying.

what's borderline?

the club is shite

omg i read it on wikipedia just now i think i have this borderline thing

i might have munchausen too!

omg i am so ocd.. i keeeep starting fires folks ! ! !

borderliners, they thrive on chaos and drama

ass purgers?

All these disorders (and many, many more!!!) have code numbers. Which appeals to my mild 301.4.

Malingering and bereavement are in there too.

dang, i think i've dated a few borderliners....

lol women amirite guyz?

BPD is a pain, but it can be occasionally entertaining. OCD folks make me want to kill.

Anxiety attacks are less annoying than people who worry at a low level all the time. You know, the fretful whiny hand-wringing types. The attacks themselves -- pfft, a few minutes of heart palpitations, a little cold sweat, just stick 'em in a corner til it's done.

I think we should categorize MORE things as mental illness. Starting with all the things I don't like.

Bipolar celebrities: DMX, Stephen Fry, Blu Cantrell

Probably a bunch of dudes who write comic books as well

jimi hendrx

cannon and ball

Rock on, Tommy.

"VON VON VON!!!!!"

That one guy OTM

Michael Palin.

You know, before I looked at this thread it was a mystery to me why Dom wasn't engaged in one of the caring professions, rather than being an Alexis Petridis wannabe.

What's Munchausen's by proxy?

MSbP is parenting disorder that comes in two forms. The children of people with MSbP will either have a fabricated illness or an induced illness.

In fact, both the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and the Department of Health now use the term FII for the condition rather than MSbP.

Fabricated illness involves a parent claiming that their child is ill, when they have actually made up the symptoms.

This can involve a high degree of deception. For instance, a parent may claim that their child has passed blood in its urine, and will present samples suggesting this is the case.

However, following tests, it will become apparent that the parent has actually pricked their own finger and dropped blood into the sample.

Another example would be a parent claiming their child is having frequent epileptic fits - even when simultaneous observation by video and by EEG (a measure of brainwave activity) shows no such events are occurring.

Induced illness is the more sinister form of the condition. This involves the parent inflicting damage on their child.

For instance, this may include injecting unsterile fluids such as dishwater into a child, or putting a caustic solution into a child's eyes to make them sore.

so to answer yr question will m, munchausen's syndrome by proxy is FUCKED UP

repetitive screaming disorder

so do people who falsely self-diagnose as ADD/OCD/ETC have a mild case of Munchausen's?

sd: i think munchausen's is more about being in the doctor's all the time, so no... more likely a mild form of hypochondria?

lol amateur psychiatrists

It's a little different than hypochondria, because having a fashionable psychological disorder is a badge of honor for these people.

yes, it says "started by Dom Passantino" on it. doesn't mean we can't hijack it for slightly worthwhile conversation

I don't know, a lot of the conversation above is mean and ill-informed at best.

personality disorders are kind of questionable, cos it's like, isn't that just "personality"? it is, to an extent. but sometimes it's fun to pathologize behavior in order to come up for new ways to describe annoying people, like we are doing in this thread.

i think it's a bit insensitive to include autism and PTSD with ADD and OCD tbh, but that's dom huh.

welcome to ilx lol wakka wakka!!!1

xp 2 abbott

personality disorders are kind of questionable, cos it's like, isn't that just "personality"? it is, to an extent. but sometimes it's fun to pathologize behavior in order to come up for new ways to describe annoying people, like we are doing in this thread.

-- bell_labs, Monday, November 19, 2007 6:05 PM (9 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

^^^also fun to pathologize own behaviour thus "sorry for being an arrogant dick, i have narcissism disorder".

obnoxio-moranism is the most annoying

burrrrrrrn

borderline probably seems totally harmless if you're just roommates with someone, unless they have their boyfriend over

you may be just roomates with them but they will not be just roomates with you, is the thing

borderline personality disorder = crock of shit elastic disorder = "feminine hysteria" of the 200s = just plain crazy

thx Dr. Bean

1000 posts by morning

remy otm, why should we bother to try and take steps towards solving a difficult and chronic problem that causes millions of people horrible emotional pain every day

i'm with abbott in that i pretty much hate the premise of this thread, but....

el tomboto completely OTM on borderline

the disorder description is b.s., not the disorder itself

the definition is a work in progress to try and isolate this particular problem from other forms of being 'just plain crazy' to make it easier to -- hollow laugh here -- treat.

Why just be morbid when you can be comorbid!

Depression b/w Anxiety 7" NM, bring it on!

my boss has narcissistic personality disorder (like, for real) so im voting that

treatment for BPD seems largely focused on the poor codependent bastards who hook up with them

http://www.bpdcentral.com/images/lovelothing1.gif

the thing is that with most of these, i feel more sympathy than annoyance. narcissistic/histrionic is the exception, cos really self-involved people tend to do pretty well for themselves. people admire them because they are "fun" and "attractive" and "confident" and often really magnetic. i dunno...

The problem is diagnosticians play fast 'n' loose w/diagnoses sometimes. It really takes a lotty lot to truly "qualify" as borderline* and it's like an unholy seal to be given...but I know some "wacky" people who got the label from doctors or therapists, whereas yeah like tombot & all say if you've met one, it's....memorable.

*Pretty much EVERY DSM-IV definition, even for "smaller" ones like depression or Asperger's, says it has to interfere or obstruct normal day-to-day functioning such as keeping a job, staying in school, having a family, etc

the thing is that with most of these, i feel more sympathy than annoyance

this is why i pretty much hate the premise of the thread. but cheers to those are shifting the thread to better discussion

i met one of these BPD people once, she was as nice as pie and i got the feeling she was being mugged by the doctors

err, to clarify what i meant by 'just plain crazy' : my distrust of BPD actually comes from a lawyer friend who talked about a firm he worked at that would routinely paint The Other Side as BPD to discredit their cognitive legitimacy, since the symptoms of BPD are so generalized and inspecific and unprovable [bloc-like thinking, bad self-image, depressive behavior, inability to control moods, paranoia] that almost any of them could be asserted about anybody who was forced to testify in court about a stressful situation.

Isn't the answer to the poll 'Whatever I identify with the most?'

i met one of these BPD people once, she was as nice as pie and i got the feeling she was being mugged by the doctors

well they don't usually start breaking out the cutting equipment or trying to drag you around by your hair on the first go-round, otherwise how would they find a succession of fools to suck dry and unceremoniously ditch

I'm not saying, I'm just saying

:/

"i distrust the vagaries of the mental health field based on the way those vagaries are used by the legal profession"

^^ just making sure i got that right

no, i mistrust them based on personal experience which i'm not particularly willing to share. i was using the example above to clarify what i mean. but if you look more closely, i'm sure you can find more things i've written to reduce and snark about.

dom should do a terminal disease sufferer poll next

This is definitely the most annoying mental illness poll.

HAHAHAHA otm

dom should do a terminal disease sufferer poll next

-- bnw, Monday, 19 November 2007 19:02 (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

It's on the schedule

remy, we've all had our time on the couch. sorry to snark. but c'mon, let's not handwave away what's in the dsm because of what lawyers are up to.

what, did Dom invent 'aspie rube'

(if yes, nevermind)

On Disagreeable People

I'm not saying, I'm just saying

well don't bother next time, thanks

what, did Dom invent 'aspie rube'

(if yes, nevermind)

-- wanko ergo sum, Monday, 19 November 2007 19:20 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

haitch or electricsoundofjim, one of those two.

i'd invent someone better looking

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I vote for Internet Explorer 7. It is not only mentally ill, it is a carrier.

i think ledge invented 'aspie rube'

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hahaha i suppose pyromania could be quite annoying

If you ask me, Asperger's is not very annoying. Perhaps it's the aspie/rube interaction that becomes annoying. No surprise about the winner though.

what does the rube part of that mean?

i missed this poll but i feel like narcolepsy should've gotten some votes. seems like it would be pretty consistently annoying.

i dunno if i've ever met a 'borderline' person? what's the border 'between'?

what does the rube part of that mean?

It's just ILE's new rolling balkanised thread for shut-in aspie rubes.

-- ledge, Thursday, 5 July 2007 00:35 (1 month ago) Bookmark Link

haha well if i'm too awkward to live and am spending my lunchbreak on ile to avoid my coworkers, am i one of them?