/lit/ - Literature

schizoid pd

>>11282550
ecstatic epilepsy

Haa to be either schizophrenia or DID.

>>11282550
>general anxiety isn't /lit/, it just sucks
>tfw

>>11282574
just turn it into kierkegaardian anxiety

>implying 'mental disorder' is not a knowledge used for discursive systems of power, and that classifying different modes of thought as healthy/unhealthy is not an oppressive structure

>>11282550

Schizoid

>>11282597
This. Shizoids are superior
Rise fellow schizoids

>>11282550
Being an *nglo

>>11282608

Fine, but I'm not going to any meetups.

>>11282576
I'm actually a Christian, so based on what I know about Kirkegaard, that could be a possibility I guess.

>>11282608
>>11282614
>>11282557
>schizoid

Stop lying to yourselves.
I've been through the "schizoid" phase. You're probably just lonely and using fantasy to cope with that.

Borderline personality disorder

>>11282550
Obsessive compulsive disorder.

>>11282550
No one cares. Kill yourself

schizophrenia

>mental disorder

Agoraphobia

>>11282631
Only chicks have BPD and they're all downright batshit crazy. Have you ever seen a grown woman have a tantrum?

How about being a virgin? LOL

>>11282658
Whoops, meant to reply to: >>11282629

>>11282629
i have this and i cannot maintain relationships at all. it sucks. and what great writer had bpd? dfw? because i never cared for his writing.

>>11282621

this

actual schizoids dont spend their time telling everyone how schizoid they are

Depends on what author, Pynchon and PKD wrote good books for schizos. Mishima wrote good books for depressed r9kers

Pyromania is lit

>>11282550
Referential mania.

>>11282696
I'm a schizoid with OCD and this is pretty much the truth, barely left the house in 3 years. People started asking what's wrong, I just don't have a reason to go out besides maybe reading in a coffee shop.

>>11282719

Farhenheit 451 is pyro lit

The most common disorder seems to be bipolar disorder with reoccurring anxiety coming up second. Check out the Wikipedia page for "Creativity and Mental Illness."

>>11282728
Do you still enjoy to socialise on occasion (but not often and usually in a detached way)?

I know mentally I'm a bit fucked, but I've no clue in what way

The most /lit/ mental illness is alcoholism, this isn't even a competition

>>11282550

I once read that famous poets were 40 times more likely to have "bipolar disorder"

Bipolar disorder isn't real though. Mania/psychosis certainly is but not "bipolar disorder".

It is crazy how linguistic a mania is. It's all about free association of ideas. You can't take a piss without feeling like you're pissing off the edge of the sky into the bowels of the earth. Pretty whacky stuff man, but it inevitably goes so far that you're completely deranged and out of control.

Pic related, you do see things like this behind your eyes when you haven't slept in a few days.

I can't come close to describing a mania. If someone described it to me and I hadn't experienced it myself I would think they were exaggerating. You develop psychic powers and eventually get attacked by evil spirits. Colors are so bright and vivid they hurt your eyes. You hallucinate complex compositions, big brass and orchestra pouring out of your inner ear.

And eventually you're flailing around in a white room while some sadistic psychiatrist shoots haloperidol in your ass.

As for people who probably were susceptible to manias - Coleridge, Lowell for sure, Byron writes about it, Dickinson writes about it, Lucretius "went mad" and killed himself, most poets seem to have experienced some extreme emotional states even if it didn't reach a point where they had to be in a hospital.

>>11282745
>he thinks alcoholism is an illness

>>11282795
you don't know the first bit about alcoholism

Insanity

>>11282745
this or schizoid (existentialist schiz in action to be exact)

>>11282550
schizophrenia

>>11282550
sanity

gnosis

>>11282550
hope

>>11282550
most like aspergers.

>>11282550
Heterosexuality, racism, and misogyny.

>>11282557

this

>>11282681
post tits. unless youre a tranny, in which case fucking ew

>>11282782
good post

>>11284500
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pretty weak stuff m8

>>11282629
Borderline girls (never met a borderline man) aren't /lit/ at all, they're just cunts. I know a couple and they just make everyone around them miserable and all of their friends learn to just assume they're lying 100% of the time.

Homosexuality.

>>11284698
>never met a borderline man
i had never thought of it, but me neither.
i know a couple of actual borderline girls, but have never really heard of a borderline man. i wonder what's the prevalence in both sexes.

>>11282550
this board is probably full of narcissist desu.

>>11284857
I heard it's 50/50, but male borderliners are usually found in jail or forensics

>>11282550
gender dysphoria

>>11284892
The borderline girls I know are both batshit. One has made up obvious lies about every single one of her friends to tell all the others (even me, and I barely know her) for no reason. She also has incredibly loud conversations about her mental health, her suicide attempts that may or may not have really happened, her therapy, and her medication every day in front of people that don't know her, I guess to seem edgy or something.

>>11284698
I knew a borderline chap (used to talk, long story) and he flat-out lied about literally everything (even things you wouldn't be proud lying about) and his ego was enormous, when we were out people would always say he was a cunt behind his back as he left to the toilet. (he'd spiel his favourite-fake-victories to everyone all the time).
He was totally fucking insecure though and not in an empathetic way that you could pity it's origins because he would shit on you straight after trying to empathize with anything.
When I stopped, stopping by he felt I owed him time.
I feel deeply sorry for his girlfriends dealing with him (although he probably convinces each one he's jesus before any insecurity/reality can seep through).
Borderline people should unironically be removed from the gene pool.

My friend is borderline and I am also possibly borderline as well(just type 1 bipolar disorder as my diagnosis right now) and neither of us act like anything you people are describing. You shouldn't judge everyone with the disorder the same because you met a couple of lying cunts.

>>11282681
Hemingway probably

There's some evidence that bipolar has a structural effect on language processing that can result in an abnormal fascination with and intuition for wordplay like puns, spoonerisms, portmanteaus, etc. It's just a dumb anecdote, but my father, grandfather, and I all have bipolar and are all extremely quick with wordplay, and two of us are English majors. I have no evidence that he was bipolar, but late Joyce comes to mind as the quintessential example of the level of language-bending we like

>>11284944
Oversharing is a trait of borderline. She is not trying to be edgy, she just can't help herself from having the feeling she has to share every personal details about her life.

>someone thinks they're schizophrenic
>their verbal competency is fine and they have a normal comprehension of causal relation
Can you please all fuck off and find a new term to mark yourself as "special" with

>>11285240
We have, it's called schizotypal

>>11285258
Literally anyone with sub-par social skills and anxiety about others' impression of them could convince themselves that they qualify for this diagnosis. The oft-cited symptoms are kind that ~40% of people would self-report having

>>11285223
who are you telling that you have borderline?
It's nothing to be proud of.

>>11285240
schizophrenia isn't the same as schizoid personality disorder

not saying these anons are right in their self-diagnosis, but there is a difference

Really really concerning that borderline has become the hip new self-diagnosis among tumblr females and their orbiters. Borderline personality makes you someone to outright avoid. It isn't cool or mysterious or literary to have it. Borderline wreaks havoc on the life of those who have it, and is even worse for those they personally know. My borderline grandmother is dying right now and I think every single person in my family, mother included, is secretly rejoicing that she'll be gone soon

>>11282719
kek

>>11282550
Gender Dysphoria

>>11285299
>glad your grandmother is dying
what the fuck man, family comes first. knock it off

>>11282782
my mania was somewhat more restrained than this. The part I agree with is that you just can't describe how it feels. I literally thought God was flowing through me, or the eternal meaning of the universe or something. Scary at first but then extremely beautiful.

Everything just glowed for weeks, everything was so meaningful and beautiful, everything I tried to do worked perfectly, all i felt for people was empathy and love, and i totally lost my conception of myself as an individual, i felt that i had merged with everything. I had visions of a place outside space and time, particular scenes I tried to write down or paint to remember them, with these reocurring symbols like a tree or a shore.

I thought i was supposed to be founding a religion or something, but a part of me thought maybe I was just supposed to bear witness as some mystic, so I never went off the deep end completely. It just sort of faded after about 2 months, and then I got extremely unhappy that it went away.

i honestly dont know what to do with my life since then. It made everything else seem so unimportant. Like every other possible reward to epxend effort achieving is so slight in comparison. It basically ruined my ability to care about romantic relationships, which i used to obsess over, and the same thing with art.

part of me still can't believe that it was delusion, that's how strong the experience is. i know logically it is just dopamine flooding your brain or whatever, but it was like being shown God

>>11285299
> borderline has become the hip new self-diagnosis among tumblr females
>Borderline wreaks havoc on the life of those who have it, and is even worse for those they personally know

seems accurate to me

>>11285317
>family comes first
Exactly, and she has been a detriment to most of the family for decades now
>regularly contacts my mom to call her an ungrateful slut and a failure, used to be even worse until my dad stepped in and physically threatened her
>has walked around, threatening to kill herself at family reunions
>told my younger sisters that she would kill herself if they stopped calling and visiting when they were 8 and 13
>actively sabotaged my grandfather's dream to build and fly a plane until his eyesight deteriorated to the point that he never will

personally I would not consider any illness making you more /lit/ than not being ill.

some people have noted Schizophrenia as /lit/ but from what I know of it, they have a even harder time finding stillness in themselves, I dont think having voices talking shit would make reading or writing any easier. Maybe you could make the argument of the noise being like that of a coffee shop, but I'd just say you're fukt in the head.

I suffer from Schizotypal personality disorder myself, it's on the schizophrenic spectrum but to a much milder degree. We still think fucked up things and are somewhat paranoid, but are a lot closer to functional than schizophrenics. We can be pretty withdrawn from society, but it's not like it makes us better at /lit/, while we think a lot in metaphors, a lot of it is just vague upside down shit. Like trying to put yourself into the mindset of a pidgeon and trying to construct its philosophy. It's mind burping and stupid.

Mental illnesses are just stray paths that you can follow into nothing. There's no enlightenment or greater potential, whatever wisdom you think you find in them turns to gibberish once presented to the real world

>>11282728
Are you financially independent?

It's obviously the bipolar/depression/anxiety spectrum and a splash of PTSD would help as well.

>>11285378
People only think schizophrenia is literary because they don't actually know what it is. They've never tried to have a conversation with a schizophrenic person. They don't know just how disabled they are. They don't know what it means to say that they can't logically understand causal relations

>>11285380
Only as much as my savings which are running out fast. Wouldn't know what job would suit me though, apart from art which isn't exactly realistic.

>>11285240
>>11285258
I have a friend who came to the realization (quite happily) that he's schizotypal. I told him he should go the a professional for a diagnosis if he's concerned about this stuff; he told me I don't know what I'm talking about. Last year he was an "empath".

>>11282740
depends on how old you are 22+ and not leaving the house was enough apparently. I can socialise but I largely choose not to.

>>11285399
/lit/ and not knowing what they're talking about. imagine that

>if I have social difficulties I must have some kind of disorder
>if I'm unhappy I must have some kind of disorder
>if I just want to stay inside all day I must have some kind of disorder
>if I have trouble starting or maintaining relationships I must have some kind of disorder
>if I get anxious sometimes I must have some kind of disorder

zoidbois represent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IehtMYlOuIk
/lit/ in a nutshell

Sexual degeneration

>>11285448
that's what (((they))) want us to believe

>>11285448
/lit/ is full of scholgirls

>>11282657
*pinch*

>>11285448
You know that personality disorders are literally just that? Taking too many selfies is a recognized personality disorder.

>>11285469
better stay """sane""" so you can keep working goyim! stop thinking those weird thoughts!!

>>11285317
I don't want to make any assumptions about your personal life, but I probably wouldn't be judgmental about this if you haven't got any truly "problematic" relatives. Yes, family is more or less the most important thing in life, but there is a stack of family duties. So I'd say more or less your duty to your children is absolute. But past a certain point of mentally ill havoc-wreaking, I wouldn't judge anyone who loses their love for their other family members, parents, grandparents, spouse etc., even though maintaining your relationship with them is admirable if you can manage it obviously.

Btw I'm not speaking from my own experience here, but the experience of my parents who have each had to deal firsthand with psychotically abusive parents, and I have to say, hearing them talk about the way they were raised, I don't blame them for being unable to mourn their passing.

>>11285454
those jewish lips

>>11285448
*if I want NEETBUX i officially need to have some kind of disorder

missed the best one lad