Katie | Saturday, September 23, 2000 - 10:29 am  Cheater!! lol Aren't you a professional Katnphx?? Or am I wrong? |
Kearie | Saturday, September 23, 2000 - 10:35 am  Kat has two right. Dang....now I'm starting to get paranoid...what if the Dr.'s are wrong again and I have more problems than they originally believed. Hmmmm?? Is it time for me to hit the DSM-4 and see if there is more wrong with me? whimper... LOL The final one is pretty basic actually---kind of like which came first, the chicken or the egg. I have DID as a opposed to MPD. I don't have multiple PERSONALITIES, I have multiple fugues, which are parts of personalities. They are one sided rather than 3 dimentional. For the most part they each have 1 or 2 basic, yet distinct emotions. I also have a mild awareness with some of them. |
Mee | Saturday, September 23, 2000 - 10:35 am  Kearie, yes. My guess is Multiple Personality Disorder with a side of Borderline. LOL, since I got it half right, can I get $5 worth of votes for Eddie to win? ;) |
Mee | Saturday, September 23, 2000 - 10:37 am  OMG, Kearie, I hope you are kidding. And you claim you are not a masochist. ;) |
Casper | Saturday, September 23, 2000 - 10:38 am  He was not making any sense last night while talking to Jamie after the Naked Trampoline funfest. Has anybody went back to that and read the minutes from last night. Very strange person. How can he want someone that understand "him" when he doesn't even make sense? I don't think he even understands himself. Can a .... retarded person also have a high IQ? Definitely doesn't have his head together for a person of his stature. If he's GAY...someone tell him it's okay so he can find himself. |
Hokum | Saturday, September 23, 2000 - 10:39 am  I was gonna guess PTSD. In any case, hope you are doing well and continue to do so Kearie. |
Katnphx | Saturday, September 23, 2000 - 10:42 am  Katie, I'm an accounting software engineer, but I will confess that my husband is a psychologist. Unfortunately, he's not home right now or I could have cheated. Not bad getting two out of three though from just remembering stories about hubby's work, eh? |
Kearie | Saturday, September 23, 2000 - 10:47 am  Hmmmm? So is a Borderline also diagnosed with Masochism? never thot of that, but I guess it could be. Altho I don't find pleasure in self destructive behavior...so does it count. Something interesting for me to think about. Casper...an individual with a very high IQ can be as different from the Norm as a individual with a low IQ. People with high IQ's can appear extremely out of touch with reality because they think on such a different level than the norm does. If Josh truly has a high IQ he could very easily be hard to understand and seem contradictory to the normal population. I think Josh has an understanding of himself, yet can't explain to us normal people.... Ohmigosh, did I just call myself normal? God forbid. lol |
Alimerz | Saturday, September 23, 2000 - 10:48 am  Ok at first I thought this would be a cool game. I ran through my DSM IV criteria...bipolar, maybe...definitely some kind of personality disorder goin on...perhaps a sprinkle of ADHD...and then before I could get too involved I remembered, this is an actual person, not a trivial pursuit question. Josh is definitely depressed. |
Katie | Saturday, September 23, 2000 - 10:52 am  Can't be normal Kearie. Remember you are special. |
Gomer | Saturday, September 23, 2000 - 10:53 am  Casper He was DRUNK last night.None of 'em make sense. Not a psychologist's point of view-just from one was in the get'em drunk biz for too long. Don't ever fall for the "truth from alcohol"line.People do weird things on that drug which completely obliterates their true selves. |
Kearie | Saturday, September 23, 2000 - 10:54 am  Not ADHD or Bi-polar....altho the doc's did diagnose me as Bi-polar 2 for a while. But since lithium made me really sick, they tried a different diagnosis. Two of the right answers are Borderline personality disorder and Disassociative Identity Disorder, NOS. another hint.... I'm on Trazadone and Effexor. I got addicted to Ativan and Xanax so I can't take those types of meds anymore. Good guesses for all of you. |
Katie | Saturday, September 23, 2000 - 10:56 am  I keep coming back to depressive but that is too simple. |
Creamynougat | Saturday, September 23, 2000 - 10:57 am  Well, I dunno about anything clinical but Josh does seem rather depressed. Maybe it's cosmic loneliness but whatever it's called, I can see that Josh has a tendency to turn inward and will seek escape from reality, such as alcohol provides. Even now Josh is using BB as a sort of escape, IMO. Josh could have problems with alcoholism and/or other drug dependency very easily. And I say this from personal experience. |
Iadmitiwatchit | Saturday, September 23, 2000 - 10:59 am  Lurker here... Panic Anxiety Disorder??? |
Kearie | Saturday, September 23, 2000 - 11:01 am  Hokum--- Thanks, I am doing very well, thank you. It was a long road to get here, but I'm well. Finding the right Dx and Tx is often the most difficult for the person. It took six years to nail down my Dx. As for PTSD---well, yes and no. It could be considered a diagnosis, but in my case it is usually not a noted one. Most individuals with any type of disassociative disorder have had traumatic experiences that lead to the coping mechanism of disassociation. So PTSD is correct, but in some sense a symptom or precurser of dissasociative disorder. |
Deeya | Saturday, September 23, 2000 - 11:03 am  Isn't Xanax given for depression? trying to remember.. Just to add a thought about Josh (since I too did some master's work for counseling).. Josh lost his mother.. can't remember what age.. but this often has a major affect on the personality.. (no not always.. and lots of people handle it without it causing any problems).. anyway.. I personally had a client (student counseling) who had problems getting close to people and he came to realize during counseling that he feared abandonment because of the loss of his father.. Just a bit more mishmash to throw in the pot |
Kearie | Saturday, September 23, 2000 - 11:06 am  Woohooo!!!!! Yep, chronic depression. At one point I was told that the only hope left for me was Shock therapy. Yikes. So...I have Borderline, DID and depression. Underneath those I do have anxiety and PTSD which are both symptoms and kind of precursers to the other illnesses. WOOHOO---good job to all...lol Dang Katie...I was tryin to fool ya into thinkin I'm normal. :-) Guess I have to stick with simply being special. hehehe |
Iadmitiwatchit | Saturday, September 23, 2000 - 11:09 am  Kearie I have Panic Anxiety Disorder and that's enough for me! I wish you well... by the way, that was kind of fun! |
Jade888 | Saturday, September 23, 2000 - 11:10 am  Would you no t be depressed if you lived in a house with no outside contact? I was waiting for this board to be started as I knew it would come. All of the HG seem to be showing signs of mental health issues. Eddie's aggressive behavior last night was enough to have him arrested for terroristic threatening of a house hold member. He screams to attract attention from the others who are not as assertive as he is. He an an agressive personality that he has been able to use to scare and intimidate others. This aggressive personality is just one of his many problems he could benefit from therapy. George is truly suffereing from depression. He laughed the entire week of the nominations and displayed no emotions. He did a good job in keeping his feelings in check yet he showed signs of depression. Curtis...he has seems to have weathered the storm a little better. He is tiring and taking it well. Josh...he may not have full blown depression but as I stated earlier they have all been locked up no different than a psychiatric ward. But he defietley shows sign of some experience that he has trouble with. Remember when he was talking about his parents divorcing at a very young age. Does he blame himself? He still has issues. The BB house is like a psych ward with no nurses or staff to treat them. Without a psychiatric evaluation it is difficult to assign any diagnosis to any house member. I am sure they were all evaluated prior to entering the house, but I feel that living in a closed enviroment has made them reflect on their own lives and given them alot to think about. I feel that Eddie definetley could benefit from therapy and Josh George, Jordon, Mega and especially Karen could benefit from therapy. PS. My husband is a Board Certified Psychiatrist and Nuerologist. We have discussed this in great detail after the clothesline incident. |
Chris | Saturday, September 23, 2000 - 11:10 am  I see many people here who express symptoms of OPD (Omniscient Poster Disorder) |
Katnphx | Saturday, September 23, 2000 - 11:13 am  So Kearie, What is the third? an anxiety disorder? |
Webtvlurker | Saturday, September 23, 2000 - 11:13 am  Treestud, I agree with your ORIGINAL post. See my thoughts under Josh doesn't want Cass to tell-whats he hiding? I do think Josh is depressed but nothing like he will be when he gets out and sees how Curtis has been dissing him in the RR I don't think Josh is the one hiding anything, AND I have a right to my opinion! |
Jade888 | Saturday, September 23, 2000 - 11:16 am  I think it is unfair for us to discuss their mental health and to even attempt to give them a diagnosis without any history or physical. Let's just have fun and let CBS worry about paying for their shrink. |
Katnphx | Saturday, September 23, 2000 - 11:17 am  Oops, nevermind. I saw it, derpession. Darn, I thought that was too easy. |