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Blanc said: 

These pathological personality traits are maladaptive variants of the Big Five personality dimensions of

 

emotional stability (negative affectivity),

low extraversion (detachment),

low agreeableness (antagonism),

low conscientiousness (disinhibition), and

openness (psychoticism; Thomas et al., 2013). 

 

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0092656618300461 

 

The purpose of the present studies was to extend what is known about the connections between personality and one particular facet of ToM – emotion recognition – by examining the broad array of pathological personality traits that were included in Section III (“Emerging Measures and Models” in need of further study) of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5; American Psychiatric Association, 2013). This collection of pathological personality traits – which is often referred to as the “DSM-5 Trait Model” (see Wright & Krueger, in press, for a review) – includes: negative affectivity (i.e., the tendency to experience an array of negative emotions), detachment (i.e., characterized by introversion, social isolation, and anhedonia), antagonism (i.e., aggressive tendencies accompanied by assertions of dominance and grandiosity), disinhibition (i.e., impulsivity and sensation seeking), and psychoticism (i.e., a disconnection from reality and a tendency to experience illogical thought patterns). These pathological personality traits are maladaptive variants of the Big Five personality dimensions of emotional stability (negative affectivity), low extraversion (detachment), low agreeableness (antagonism), low conscientiousness (disinhibition), and openness (psychoticism; Thomas et al., 2013). Various studies have shown that negative affectivity, detachment, antagonism, and disinhibition are strongly correlated with their corresponding Big Five dimensions (e.g., Few et al., 2013, Quilty et al., 2013, Thomas et al., 2013) but the association between psychoticism and openness has been far less consistent (e.g., Chmielewski et al., 2014, De Fruyt et al., 2013, Few et al., 2013, Gore and Widiger, 2013, Suzuki et al., 2015, Watson et al., 2013). Thus, further research regarding the connections between these pathological personality traits and variables previously associated with the Big Five dimensions is warranted.

Recent research has found that various indicators of personality pathology – including facets of the DSM-5 Trait Model – are associated with performance on ToM tasks (Fossati, Somma, Krueger, Markon, & Borroni, in press). The clearest results to emerge from Fossati et al. (in press) were that suspiciousness and withdrawal had consistent – but weak – negative associations with performance on two types of ToM tasks in a clinical sample. This suggests that individuals with elevated levels of suspiciousness and withdrawal may have particular difficulty understanding the mental states of other individuals. These results add to a complex – and seemingly contradictory – body of literature concerning the connections that forms of personality pathology have with ToM. For example, studies addressing the connection between borderline personality features – which can be described in terms of the pathological personality traits of negative affectivity, disinhibition, and detachment (Fossati, Krueger, Markon, Borroni, & Maffei, 2013) – and ToM have revealed conflicting results with some studies showing a negative association between borderline personality features and ToM (Dziobek et al., 2011, Fonagy and Bateman, 2008, Preißler et al., 2010), whereas other studies revealed either a positive association (Arntz et al., 2009, Fertuck et al., 2009, Frick et al., 2012, Lynch et al., 2006, Schulze et al., 2013) or no association (Franzen et al., 2011, Schilling et al., 2012, Scott et al., 2011). Further, Sharp et al., 2011, Sharp et al., 2013) have argued that individuals with borderline personality features may actually suffer from a form of hypermentalizing (i.e., excessive but inaccurate mentalizing) rather than undermentalizing. Focusing on specific pathological personality traits rather than broader diagnostic categories (e.g., borderline personality disorder) may provide a clearer and more nuanced understanding of the connections between personality pathology and ToM.

 borderline personality disorder is the most misunderstood diagnosis in the field, historically those diagnosed have been treated poorly and essentially blamed for their condition. Take a highly intelligent and sensitive person and traumatize them young. You'll get someone with diabolical coping skills, deep empathy they can misuse when needed, deeply kind with an underlying fragility. good people imo 

Does any self-awareness of this fact get subsumed in this voracious cloud of ego-disregulation?  It may potentially become a further source of oscillating angst and self-loathing.

"I should know better than this!  I keep getting it wrong!  Everyone sees that I'm getting it wrong!  They should see I can't help it!  Why can't I help it?"

Buttered Toast said: 

"I should know better than this!  I keep getting it wrong!  Everyone sees that I'm getting it wrong!  They should see I can't help it!  Why can't I help it?"

Control freaks do have a tendency to go there, and that tends to come from indulging in it over how that reinforces that you are in control of your circumstances. 

Realizing that you are not in control of everything helps. 

Buttered Toast said: 

Does any self-awareness of this fact get subsumed in this voracious cloud of ego-disregulation?  It may potentially become a further source of oscillating angst and self-loathing.

"I should know better than this!  I keep getting it wrong!  Everyone sees that I'm getting it wrong!  They should see I can't help it!  Why can't I help it?"

 To understand BPD you need to understand trauma, in particular how PTSD effects the brain. in crisis there is no rationality, just the panic to avoid what they fear, which is usually abandonment. Many express deep shame from their inability to regulate emotions when lit. Yes, this feeds their isolation, loneliness and illness - an awareness of 'I'm defect and I can't stop'. What's often missed is the gifts and intelligence of the typical person with BPD for both the sufferer and those who misunderstand them. 

Many people (esp females) who present with mania, delusions or anti-social traits are misdiagnosed with BPD.   

ddddddld said: 

Many people (esp females) who present with mania, delusions or anti-social traits are misdiagnosed with BPD.   

 I believe it is also a common misdiagnosis for females with ASD.

And let us not forget hysteria.

Buttered Toast said: 

ddddddld said: 

Many people (esp females) who present with mania, delusions or anti-social traits are misdiagnosed with BPD.   

 I believe it is also a common misdiagnosis for females with ASD.

And let us not forget hysteria.

 

 I like this: 

"not only is a woman vulnerable to mental disorders, she is weak and easily influenced (by the “supernatural” or by organic degeneration), and she is somehow “guilty” (of sinning or not procreating). Thus mental disorder, especially in women, so often misunderstood and misinterpreted, generates scientific and / or moral bias, defined as a pseudo-scientific prejudice.

19-20th centuries’ studies gradually demonstrate that hysteria is not an exclusively female disease allowing a stricter scientific view to finally prevail."

Women are historically deemed the hysterical sex (still are) for attempting to survive in cultures that hate them, while it's men committing the mass shootings and bombings who are deemed rational.

Misogyny remains alive and well, esp. in the field of psychology. 

Buttered Toast said:

 hahaha I hope this isn't real

You listen to this fucking twat going on about the same baw bag test hes been going on about for months, if not years. No wonder you dont talk to anyone new, maybe i was wrong and youre as dumb as fuckin him.