Kevin's Watch

Posted: **Sun Mar 23, 2008 7:05 am**

drew wrote:A good Catholic boy like Null?

Holy Thursday?

He's probebly at church.

no - at work. i work wed-sat.

Posted: **Tue Mar 25, 2008 3:55 pm**

Wyldewode wrote:
Cagliostro wrote:Can I add Emotional Leper to this, or has he just changed names?
No. . . same username, but he's hardly posted anything in the last few weeks. Maybe you should PM him, Cagliostro.

Nah...don't wanna look like a stalker. I just miss his amusings.

Posted: **Tue Mar 25, 2008 3:57 pm**

Check the Dune thread in the Flicks forum...

Posted: **Wed Mar 26, 2008 2:39 am**

Cagliostro wrote: Nah...don't wanna look like a stalker. I just miss his amusings.

Whyever not? You are a stalker, aren't you? Are you ashamed of it?

Posted: **Wed Mar 26, 2008 2:43 am**

He's not ashamed, it's his alter-ego

Posted: **Wed Mar 26, 2008 3:28 am**

Dissociative Identity Disorder? That explains much.

Posted: **Wed Mar 26, 2008 4:23 am**

Disso...geez, how does she come up with these things?

Posted: **Wed Mar 26, 2008 5:03 am**

I don't think she made it up

Posted: **Wed Mar 26, 2008 5:08 am**

matrixman wrote:Disso...geez, how does she come up with these things?

It's the new term for multiple personality disorder. And I know because I worked with mentally ill adults for several years.

Posted: **Wed Mar 26, 2008 6:14 am**

If you say the Candyman's name five times, you do not, in fact, get delicious candy.

And if you say Candlejack's name five times, you do not, in fact, get kidna

Posted: **Wed Mar 26, 2008 7:32 am**

What do I get if I say your name five times?

Posted: **Wed Mar 26, 2008 8:02 am**

Wyldewode wrote:What do I get if I say your name five times?

Scarred for life.

Posted: **Wed Mar 26, 2008 8:12 am**

I already have that. . . can I have something different?

Posted: **Wed Mar 26, 2008 9:13 am**

Wyldewode wrote:
matrixman wrote:Disso...geez, how does she come up with these things?
It's the new term for multiple personality disorder. And I know because I worked with mentally ill adults for several years.

What was so wrong with the old term that they had to change it? Don't worry, you don't have to answer if a lengthy explanation is required. But I suspect political correctness has something to do with it.

Posted: **Wed Mar 26, 2008 9:50 am**

Partially, MM, I would agree. But the world of psychology, as any "science", continues to expand as new findings are made. I would imagine an effort was made to codify differing types of personality disorders, and this was one of the results. The naming of a disorder, naturally, would be forced into P.C. guidelines.

But I'm just theorizing. Also, I must apologize if this reads somewhat pedantic, as I haven't slept more than three hours in the last two days, and when exhausted, I become loquacious.

That last word was meant as self-deprecation.

-B

Posted: **Wed Mar 26, 2008 10:24 am**

Actually, instead of being more PC, it changed because it was more accurately descriptive of what happens.

"Dissociation" describes a state in which the integrated functioning of a person's identity, including consciousness, memory and awareness of surroundings, is disrupted or eliminated. Dissociation is a mechanism that allows the mind to separate or compartmentalize certain memories or thoughts from normal consciousness. These memories are not erased, but are buried and may resurface at a later time. Dissociation is related to hypnosis in that hypnotic trance also involves a temporarily altered state of consciousness. Dissociation occurs along a continuum or spectrum, and may be mild and part of the range of normal experience, or may be severe and pose a problem for the individual experiencing the dissociation. An example of everyday, mild dissociation is when a person is driving for a long period on the highway and takes several exits without remembering them. In severe, impairing dissociation, an individual experiences a lack of awareness of important aspects of his or her identity.

The phrase "dissociative identity disorder" replaced "multiple personality disorder" because the new name emphasizes the disruption of a person's identity that characterizes the disorder. A person with the illness is consciously aware of one aspect of his or her personality or self while being totally unaware of, or dissociated from, other aspects of it. This is a key feature of the disorder. It only takes two distinct identities or personality states to qualify as DID but there have been cases in which 100 distinct alternate personalities, or alters, were reported. Fifty percent of DID patients harbor fewer than 11 identities.

Posted: **Wed Mar 26, 2008 10:26 am**

The problem was the name. The symptoms described by what was called "Multiple Personality Disorder" were not those of a "Personality Disorder."

A personality disorder is something completely different. This is an "Identity Disorder," because it affects the persons Self-Awareness (Seperate Personalities), whereas a Personality Disorder is a 'warping' of the way one thinks and reacts (You're 'personality' is the 'problem'.)

Of course, it's 6:30, and I just finished writing a paper.

Posted: **Wed Mar 26, 2008 10:43 am**

I think all of us could use some sleep.

Posted: **Wed Mar 26, 2008 4:00 pm**

Baradakas wrote:
That last word was meant as self-deprecation.

-B

Just make sure you wash off.

Posted: **Wed Mar 26, 2008 9:19 pm**

Cagliostro wrote:
Baradakas wrote:
That last word was meant as self-deprecation.

-B
Just make sure you wash off.

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