Open Thread April 16 - April 22, 2014

Tenoke

You know the drill - If it's worth saying, but not worth its own post (even in Discussion), then it goes here.

I am curious about whether Borderline Personality Disorder is overrepresented on LessWrong compared to the general population.

Is Wikipedia's article on BPD a good description of your personality any time in the past 5 years? For the sake of this poll, ignore the specific "F60.31 Borderline type" minimum criteria.

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People with borderline personality disorder generally lack "insight," i.e. they are typically unaware that they have BPD; will deny having it; and will get extremely defensive at the suggestion they have it.

One can contrast with, for example, obsessive/compulsive disorder sufferers who usually do have pretty good insight.

So a survey based on self-reporting is not going to be very helpful.

Anyway, I doubt that there are many people on this board with BPD. This is based on my interactions and observations.

Also, this discussion board doesn't see... (read more)

1mwengler12y

I had an impulse to answer "very descriptive," but I controlled it.

1Gunnar_Zarncke12y

I seem to feel emotions less pronounced as average persons. Would have been interesting to add that as an option.