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SCA's avatar

I'd just call it Borderline Personality Disorder, the contagious variety...

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Keahi's avatar

Yup. It's right there, isn't it. The woman is a nasty whackjob.

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Bandit's avatar

Be careful. How do you know it's a "woman?"

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Keahi's avatar

True, I'm not a biologist.

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Montaigne's avatar

If the progressives couldn’t admit nut jobs into their ranks, they would have very few members left.

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libertate's avatar

Just so.

Reminiscent of the Hayek quote:

"If socialists understood economics, they wouldn't be socialists".

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John Baillie's avatar

I don't think anyone understands economics, least of all economists, whose predictive powers seem no better than astrologers. You don't even need a qualification to call yourself an economist. I own books debunking economics written by qualified economists. It's that bad.

And if Adam Smith were able to visit us today, he might say something like: where did my invisible hand go? It's all just an invisible hand job!

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William Norton's avatar

DSM IV - R has the woman covered--‘a pervasive pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, and affects, and marked impulsivity’ as evidenced by 5 or more of the following:

1. Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment

2. A pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships

characterized by alternating between extremes of idealization

and devaluation.

3. Identity disturbance: markedly and persistently unstable self

image or sense of self.

4. Impulsivity in at least two areas that are potentially self damaging (e.g., spending, sex, substance abuse, reckless

driving, binge eating).

5. Recurrent suicidal behavior, gestures, or threats, or self mutilating behavior.

6. Affective instability due to a marked reactivity of mood (e.g., intense episodic dysphoria, irritability, or anxiety usually lasting a few hours and only rarely more than a few days).

7. Chronic feelings of emptiness.

8. Inappropriate, intense anger or difficulty controlling anger (e.g.,

frequent displays of temper, constant anger, recurrent physical

fights).

9. Transient, stress-related paranoid ideation or severe

dissociative symptoms.

10. frantic efforts to avoid abandonment, identity disturbance, difficulties with anger, and intense and unstable interpersonal relationships.

There's four maybe someone kind locate a fifth.

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Integrity and Karma's avatar

Had to look it up:

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition, Text Revision, also known as DSM-IV-TR, a manual published by the American Psychiatric Association that includes almost all currently recognized mental health disorder

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Bandit's avatar

They're on the DSM-V, last I knew.

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INGRID C DURDEN's avatar

People have way too much time on hand. Put them all in the yard grow potatoes. That will keep their minds from nasty thoughts ! And they will be too tired to even think them.

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Evil Harry's avatar

How deep do we have to bury them?

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INGRID C DURDEN's avatar

The potatoes about 1 inch deep. The people, I don't know.

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Bootsorourke's avatar

Bwahahahaha

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Lawrence's avatar

That’s why she’ll see “malign creativity” wherever she looks for it.

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