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What mental/personality disorder(s) does this characterize?
For background: I'm diagnosed with PTSD and high functioning Asperger's. If it helps, my Myers-Briggs is _NFP with varying scores on the first letter, for intro/extroversion.
I have very strange patterns of wanting things to be a certain way, and that things are somehow "ruined" if they're different from that. I don't like works of art referring to themselves, for example, if a song referred to itself as a song in the lyrics themselves, I'd be very annoyed. I don't like when stories, especially the ones I make, are written in third person because I have the thought, "How would the main character have created these words in the book, if it's from their point of view? Did they 'write' it?"
I'm very confused by these feelings. I game a lot and if I make the slightest mistake, a strange feeling washes over me, where I feel some pressure on my chest as I breathe, and no matter how hard I try I cannot relieve it without some time.
I have a tendency to have thoughts that I know aren't the truth. I try not to have certain thoughts and as a result of not wanting them, I have them. For example, if I told you not to think about elephants, you'd think about elephants. So because I try not to have thoughts like these, they show up. This is especially true in relationships, when I think "you don't really care about her."
I'd like someone with some actual psychological background to answer, please. I realize some of these things may or may not be normal and some may or may not come as a result of existing conditions I already know about.
*EDIT: Don't like when stories are written in FIRST person. Sorry.
And I was diagnosed over a half decade ago, which explains the Asperger's bro
and by the way, what does it matter anyway? It's always been on the Autistic spectrum, I knew from back then I was autistic.
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- Darkphoenix1Lv 67 years agoFavorite Answer
You seem to have intrusive thoughts btw. Try blocking them off the mind with another thought, just the moment you want to think about elephants, think about something important. For artwork referring to themselves, think that these stories are fictional and they are created by others, appreciating artwork is the key not criticizing it.
- jason mLv 47 years ago
Aspberger's is no longer a diagnosis. Its all Autistic Spectrum Disorder now. DSM-V. Anyway you should seem help for a possible anxiety disorder.