People Are Strange

[H2O Man]

74. Some topics are uncomfortable.

The issue of personality disorders is certainly one of them. But it is an interesting and important one, for people to consider, while participating on a forum like this when hostility has saturated more than 50% of the conversations on DU:GD and DU:GDP.

I'd note that no individual was in any way identified, and no person was labeled .....nor given a diagnosis. In the general population of the United States, estimates suggest that as many as 1 in 6 adults has personality qualities that are related to "personality disorders." Unlike a more serious mental illness, these quirks do not tend to cause any discomfort for the individual who has them. Hence, such a discussion as people are having here is a good thing.

But I know what you are saying. People can feel uncomfortable engaging in such conversations. Even in something as basic as an abnormal psychology course, at a 200 level, it is fairly common to have, at some point in the semester, a student leave a classroom, in or nearly in tears. So it should be as non-judgmental as possible. But such discussions, like introductory college courses, as important.