--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> On Sep 6, 2007, at 3:33 PM, TurquoiseB wrote:
>
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozguru@> 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".
>
Just as another data point, one of the craziest kids I knew in high
school was the son of two psychiatrists.:-)
