Update on TTW and Yoshi

[magical thyme]

61. "I am not a psychiatrist and in any case it's impossible to diagnose over the Internet"

Which pretty much says it all.

I have a lifetime of intimate experience with people with "this behavior." I also have an aunt who never quite finished her PhD education under her mentor, Abraham Maslow. And my closest friend through my childhood and teens was ultimately diagnosed bipolar, which also happens to run in my family. Oh, and I worked directly for a psychologist for 18 months.

I am suspicious of psychiatric "diagnoses" because symptoms overlap between various disorders, are widely open to interpretation, and the diagnoses are re-defined periodically anyway.

"They can be very charming and charismatic, and then they turn."
I've yet to see TTW appear charming or charismatic, ever. That description was applied to Yoshi by Msanthrope's ex. Did you have TTW confused with her dog?

"It can be dangerous to believe everything we read. " Thank you for your concern but, frankly,
I provided a simple update on TTW and Yoshi for the benefit of some posters who had specifically asked me to update if I heard back from her.

That said:

I believe that TTW has been a member of DU since 2003, which her profile states.
I believe that she lives near Philadelphia, as she claimed and has since been confirmed.
I believe she fell into unemployment -- ie through the economic "trapdoor" -- within the last couple years based on my memory of prior posts from her.
In past years I noticed her occasional outbursts and puther on ignore because I considered her kind of nuts.
As far as I'm aware, she never asked for help before nor had extended rants of the type she's been posting until the last 6 months.
I believe she was evicted because she posted the eviction notice.
I believe Yoshi has kennel cough because Msanthrope posted that he does.
I believe that TTW retrieved Yoshi from the kennel. I expected that she would.
I believe that Msanthrope and her ex tried to help Yoshi, but I am surprised that anybody would take in a dog sight unseen without at least 1. doing 5 minutes of research into the breed's temperament and 2. immediately isolating the likely sick dog of a breed widely known to be potentially aggressive to other dogs and to cats.

I also know what it's like to fall through the "trapdoor economy" and imho, I believe the stress of losing all external stability is enough to push anybody who is not internally stable over the edge.