On Sep 6, 2007, at 3:33 PM, TurquoiseB wrote:
--- In [email protected], Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> TurquoiseB wrote:
> > But now, Peter, asking a professional out of
> > curiosity, *is* there a psychological term or
> > profile for someone who obsesses on making other
> > people apologize to them, or apologize, period?
>
> I don't know if Peter would agree but you named the term
> when you said "obsesses" as I think it would be "obsessive
> compulsive behavior" which I have mentioned here before.
> I think TM increases it and may well be what is referred
> to as "spontaneity" by the movement. I know a number
> of meditators that feel they are obsessive compulsive.
Obsessive compulsive disorder certainly fits quite
a few people who have posted here, most of them
interestingly from the TB camp
Also Borderline Personality Disorder.
Watch Charlie Brown get lured in and then watch him get blasted
again. And then get lured back in again: rinse and repeat.
I was talking to a psychiatrist friend last night and asked him about
diagnoses of people you knew online for a couple of years and if it
would be possible to diagnose someone, roughly, based on their
interactions with others, their responses, etc. He said not only
would you be able to do so, it would be very easy to do so. In fact
he said the DSM was designed to allow a relative novice to achieve a
"high reliability at diagnosis".
