/lit/ - Literature

>>18771939
Bpd , the person I knew was possessive and picked fights with her boyfriend over innocuous comments. I thought she was a cool person however, and I don’t think she fit the stigma.

This book is on my reading list. I heard about it from 2 other nonfiction books. Apparently it is required reading at the US academies.

>>18771278
I don’t know much about bpd. The one person I knew with it seemed normal until you saw her within a relationship.

>>18771152
I was diagnosed as both by a psychiatrist after 6 months. Neither one was my end diagnosis. However, Schizoid personality disorders that I know about, namely myself, and Jung, both involve fantasy worlds and fantasy relationships with people as a replacement for real life relationships. Paranoia is part of the issue, as well. As you are internalizing a lot of what other people do and say into your own fantasy. However, it is not a delusion, per se. It could turn to delusion, however, and there lies the comorbidity. I was also a psychology major, so I have researched this to some degree. I don't think OP is schizophrenic. He sounds like he knows the difference, as he has stated.

>>18771045
No, he is right, and he is probably schizoid. They are easy to misdiagnose as schizophrenics. It happened to me, personally. Wikipedia's article on the disorder of schizoid is the reason I don't trust them on anything at all. It is flagrantly, yellow journalism or the encyclopedia's version of it. I wish people wouldn't try to be doctors on 4chan. It happens too often.

>>18771006
I read it after it got the award, a long time ago. It was ok. I think McCarthy's generation had to deal with a lot of the fears of an apocalypse and how they would handle it. I remember some scenes very vividly, like how you can't trust people you meet. But I think that pessimism is contrasted quite nicely with the question the book asks, "Can life go on?" Of course it can and it will be hell, just as before. I'm sorry maybe I don't remember it that well.

>>18769176
Whatever grabs your obsession. It could be anything. Jung could do it, but so could genre fiction. It really depends. Perhaps Paradise Lost or the Silmarillion.

t. Mentally ill tripfag.

When my circumstances change. Or this year. Or never. I'm going to Tony Robbin's UPW this november, so maybe that will motivate me. kek.

>>18770796
People are having less sex than ever before, though.

>>18770555
What is performative heterosexuality? Coping? Lying about pulling? I Larp as a writer, but I only start projects. I lie to myself. I would like to read a character that does all of the above.

.t friendless bloomer

>>18770669
I’m reading his biography on Churchill and it is ok so far, but not as good as the David McCullough book on Adams I read.

>>18770297
This looks like a good author, but is there a French biography? Seems they would do better research, as the material would be in French, right?

>his own shortcomings

projecting pretty hard here. He was flawed, like everyone, but at least he was fervent and had some measure of success. My Japanese brother in law told me he changed Japan's mindset in a lot of ways. I want to read him pretty bad, but I am too busy.

>>18770294
are you me?

I just talk about sex.

Unironically pay for Masterclass. It has a lot of stuff about mechanics of stories. It gave me confidence, and I learned some stuff too. But honestly, if you don’t already imagine conversations in your head, you may not be a writer of books. Try to get into video game writing for blizzard or some company.

>I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

Had to read it in school, I genuinely finished it only because it made me chortle in disgust pretty much constantly. Also, I enjoyed trashing it in class while we were reading it in discussions.

>>18769966
>muh wikipedia says so

Yeah, I’ve read the Arthur and Sharpe books. I started the northern English ones. I think I grew out of him though.

>>18769379
>You’re own right hand can save you.

Testing to see if I am banned.

No.

Ban me too.

>>18765809
Life will go on. Nothing is forever. Wars are inevitable . Look on the bright side, it may be that we all die with the next pandemic.