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How do you get help if you think you need it? Maybe my eating behaviors and obsessions are a part of something bigger... like maybe a personality disorder. I don't know. I know as a psychology major, we all diagnose ourselves and others around us alot, but I really do think I meet the requirements. Here are the requirements:
A pervasive pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, and affects, and
marked impulsivity beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated
by five (or more) of the following:
1. frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment. Note: Do not include suicidal or
self-mutilating behavior covered in Criterion 5.
2. a pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships characterized by alternating
between extremes of idealization and devaluation
3. identity disturbance: markedly and persistently unstable self-image or sense of self
4. impulsivity in at least two areas that are potentially self-damaging (e.g., spending, sex,
substance abuse, reckless driving, binge eating). Note: Do not include suicidal or self-mutilating
behavior covered in Criterion 5.
5. recurrent suicidal behavior, gestures, or threats, or self-mutilating behavior
6. affective instability due to a marked reactivity of mood (e.g., intense episodic dysphoria,
irritability, or anxiety usually lasting a few hours and only rarely more than a few days)
7. chronic feelings of emptiness
8. inappropriate, intense anger or difficulty controlling anger (e.g., frequent displays of temper,
constant anger, recurrent physical fights)
9. transient, stress-related paranoid ideation or severe dissociative symptoms
So I know that I have extreme issues with being abandoned and maybe thats why I get so mad at courtney when i feel like she is pulling away. I did the same thing with Mitch. I have the symptoms 1-7 to some extent. I just don't know if its enough to actually get the disorder or if I really have a different disorder and I'm just misdiagnosing myself. I don't think I would even be able to ask for help because people would judge me like there goes the mental girl. Why can't anyone just love me even a little bit?
A pervasive pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, and affects, and
marked impulsivity beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated
by five (or more) of the following:
1. frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment. Note: Do not include suicidal or
self-mutilating behavior covered in Criterion 5.
2. a pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships characterized by alternating
between extremes of idealization and devaluation
3. identity disturbance: markedly and persistently unstable self-image or sense of self
4. impulsivity in at least two areas that are potentially self-damaging (e.g., spending, sex,
substance abuse, reckless driving, binge eating). Note: Do not include suicidal or self-mutilating
behavior covered in Criterion 5.
5. recurrent suicidal behavior, gestures, or threats, or self-mutilating behavior
6. affective instability due to a marked reactivity of mood (e.g., intense episodic dysphoria,
irritability, or anxiety usually lasting a few hours and only rarely more than a few days)
7. chronic feelings of emptiness
8. inappropriate, intense anger or difficulty controlling anger (e.g., frequent displays of temper,
constant anger, recurrent physical fights)
9. transient, stress-related paranoid ideation or severe dissociative symptoms
So I know that I have extreme issues with being abandoned and maybe thats why I get so mad at courtney when i feel like she is pulling away. I did the same thing with Mitch. I have the symptoms 1-7 to some extent. I just don't know if its enough to actually get the disorder or if I really have a different disorder and I'm just misdiagnosing myself. I don't think I would even be able to ask for help because people would judge me like there goes the mental girl. Why can't anyone just love me even a little bit?