I've only diagnosed my cat with separation anxiety. It is rather true. He freaks out whenever he sees boxes before I move (since I was moving in and out of dorms for a few years) or my luggage. If my dad has a business trip and he spots the luggage, he will sleep on top of the luggage in protest. Just a grumpy 17-year old cat.
Aw, my 19 year old died this year. I'm not sure what he had, but whatever it was had a large helping of entitlement mixed in. If I walked out the front door, across the hall to drop my trash down the chute, he'd be scolding me by the time I made it back in the door. And he would get into my lap when I was sitting down to put on shoes -- only to give me that "I'll just sit in the dark, since you don't love me" look when I moved him to get back up.
Then again, I never had trouble sleeping, thanks to him. If insomnia hit, he'd curl up against my chest and purr me to sleep.
My other cat, though, would be a diagnostician's dream! And now that we have a new kitten, she's even worse.
I don't see anything wrong with this thread, its a pretty common occurence for people to start worrying they have certain disorders when they are studying psychopathology. Its probably a function of the fact that most psychological disorders are just extremes of something everyone experiences from time to time (who hasn't been depressed, felt some social anxiety, etc.).
And ain't that the truth? A good friend of mine had a hell of a time with "Intern's Disease," during her last year. She'd call me once or twice a week, asking, "Do I have [X]?" And, thanks to some OC traits of my own, I get a bad attack of it whenever I get anxious about certain things. Hell, during the week or two leading up to exams, I would obsess that I had a Cluster B personality d/o, or was bipolar, or something. In fact, the only thing I think I seriously considered as a self-diagnosis was Asperger's -- frighteningly accurate picture of me as a kid... (To be fair, I wouldn't have thought of it if a close friend hadn't actually be d/x'd with it at about that time...)
Um...what if you really are diagnosed with a mental disorder and therefore don't need to pick one. 😉 j/k.
Sadly, that's true for some of us here...
Spoken as a 296.32/300.02/307.10 and a possible 300.3...
For those of you who are going into your first years....just wait until you have a study group. You'll find some people who have their notes color coded, cross referenced, and indexed by topic. They'll also have a 20 pack of highlighters, a particular place they need to sit in every room, etc.
You say that like it's a bad thing! And, for the record, I did NOT have more than three highlighters. And as for cross-referencing my notes...
Would this be a bad time to tell everybody that I've prepared a colour-coded map of San Francisco complete with labels for all the restaurants and shops I want to visit? It's colour coded by neighbourhood of course.
That's a good plan. You'll want to cross the Bay to Alameda, to eat at Acapulco's on Lincoln -- best Mexican food in several area codes. What sort of shopping do you want to do? I can certainly recommend a few places...
