Can Narcissistic Personality Disorder be considered as a real illness ?
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lexis said:http://shrink4men.wordpress.com/201...personalities-are-on-the-rise/comment-page-2/
"...Eddy (2008, pp. 32-34) cites 6 reasons personality disorders are on the rise in modern urban cultures, some of which other authors have also noted:
Instability in early childhood
Diminishing social glue
Blossom said:I believe people with this and related labels can improve from incorporating the same measures peat recommends for optimizing cellular respiration. It is exactly the same issue with the brain/psychiatric/neurological function as any other part of the body. I think focusing on the symptoms or the way the energy derangement manifests takes away from true healing. I'm curious if the blood-brain barrier might be compromised when mental illness type symptoms occur? It must be a developmental process that is in a degenerative pattern rather than a regenerative one.
Blossom said:It would be interesting if someone were to do a study with other types of Peat related interventions like the serotonin antagonists or a more holistic approach with dietary changes and targeted supplements.
Blossom said:I do think the BPD, NPD and HPD can be helped.
Pakistanis tend to marry cousins. They have a tendency to genetic issues on account of that. pakistan cousin marriage uk genetic defects - Google SearchSchizophrenia in the Asian culture:
Schizophrenia is increasing alarmingly due to poverty, unemployment, political instability, violence, urbanization, sexual abuse and other social evils besides genetic and biological vulnerability.
Prognosis in this part of world is more positive as compared to developed countries due to joint family system, strong family ties and adequate and due support from family and friends. Raynond cochraine, a professor of psychology at the University of Birmingham, U.K. has researched many Pakistanis living in Britain and has found that they have low rate of illness but have relatively good chances of recovery due to their strong and supportive family structure.
http://www.isps-us.org/articles/pakistan.htm
I believe so. There is evidence that some personality disorders, such as antisocial (psychopaths) and borderline personality disorder have characteristic underdeveloped parts of the brain.
In a sense they are children, I believe due to a particular part of the brain that didn't develop well, many believe due to the combination of being born with a predisposition and abuse or neglect during childhood.
Thyroid hormone, according to a study, makes psychopaths more aggressive. BPD people have worse symptoms when estrogen is high, so maybe thyroid hormone helps them. BPD, NPD, HPD, and AsPD are all in a group called cluster B and they all can be psychopathic.
I drove special ed buses for several years. The majority of the behavioral cases I transported were being raised by the grandparents, because the bio parents were in jail or off on drugs. What the kids are afflicted with is probably fetal alcohol / drug syndrome, and that seems to be rising with the laissez-faire attitude the US has developed over the years vis a vis drug use. The number of special ed buses in use has been expanding over the years. They are financed under the federal budget, btw.I believe so. There is evidence that some personality disorders, such as antisocial (psychopaths) and borderline personality disorder have characteristic underdeveloped parts of the brain.
In a sense they are children, I believe due to a particular part of the brain that didn't develop well, many believe due to the combination of being born with a predisposition and abuse or neglect during childhood.