Don't want a relationship? You are seriously ill. - Page 8

On February 23 2012 22:55 Neeh wrote:
Lower birthrates is a good thing...

On February 24 2012 03:16 leecH wrote:
i just think most wemon have a mental disorder. im good :-)

i often thinkin that a classic relationship is like a relict. you dont have to like be with one person for the rest of your life. we don´t live in caves go hunting and back home to our cave where we need our hair wolflike lady to cook the food..

if this is a mental illness everything would be.

sitting in front of a pc is not natural we should be out hunting?
not shitting in the woods is a serious mental illness?

sometimes i think people who study this stuff are the ones having mental issues.

i like not having someone around pissing me off all day :-)

A. A pervasive pattern of detachment from social relationships and a restricted range of expression of emotions in interpersonal settings, beginning by early adulthood (age eighteen or older) and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by four (or more) of the following:

1. Neither desires nor enjoys relationships or human interaction, including being part of a family
2. Almost always chooses solitary activities
3. Has little, if any, interest in having sexual experiences with another person
4. Takes pleasure in few, if any, activities with other people
5. Lacks close friends or confidants other than first-degree relatives
6. Appears indifferent to the praise or criticism of others
7. Shows emotional coldness, detachment, or flattened affect

B. Does not occur exclusively during the course of schizophrenia, a mood disorder with psychotic features, another psychotic disorder, or a pervasive developmental disorder and is not due to the direct physiological effects of a general medical condition.

An enduring pattern of psychological experience and behavior that differs prominently from cultural expectations, as shown in two or more of: cognition (i.e. perceiving and interpreting the self, other people or events); affect (ie. the range, intensity, lability, and appropriateness of emotional response); interpersonal functioning; or impulse control.
The pattern must appear inflexible and pervasive across a wide range of situations, and lead to clinically significant distress or impairment in important areas of functioning.
The pattern must be stable and long-lasting, have started as early as at least adolescence or early adulthood.
The pattern must not be better accounted for as a manifestation of another mental disorder, or to the direct physiological effects of a substance (e.g. drug or medication) or a general medical condition (e.g. head trauma).

On February 24 2012 04:28 Savio wrote:
I'm a psychiatrist (still in my residency training) and I treat mental illness all day. I can tell you that no one I have ever met in the mental health field would consider someone who doesn't currently want a girlfriend to have "serious mental illness".

The closest thing is "Schizoid Personality Disorder" which by DSM criteria requires:



In addition to this criteria, a person's personality disoder must meet the folowing criteria:



Its very very rare and I've never actually met anyone who has it.

Personality disorders, in general, are not diagnosed in 1 visit. You have to fully evaluate the individual over a period of time and know their individual social, biological, and psychological situations before you can be comfortable as listing them as having a personality disorder.