Poll fun (ha!)

[kellinator]

Why bother getting a serious psychiatric diagnosis, when you can just stick a stupid poll in your LiveJournal?

[Poll #124075]

EDIT: As provided by the lovely and talented cynical7, DSM-IV criteria for diagnosis of borderline personality disorder:

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

Comments

[technomom]

I don't know you well enough to know if you fit those criteria, but I've never felt that you're likely to be borderline. You don't trip my "ohmygodrunaway!" meter, anyway ;-)

Hon, if you are cool with whatever is going on with you, why worry about it? If you feel like something is keeping you from functioning as you'd like, or doing what you want - go see a professional. Get help.

*hugs*