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I mainly wanted to step in on the whole antisocial personality and schizophrenia business, as I remember being fascinated with both when I took a general psych course in high school. The better (though it's really pretty relative in these terms) aspects of schizophrenia is that it can be treated. My girlfriend's mom is schizophrenic but she has treatment for it, and so it can be helped and can be signified so not only doctor's but the patient can understand what they're facing. Antisocial personality disorder, on the other hand, is hard for doctors to identify and hard for the patient to overcome, because it practically consumed their entire character. They're extremely manipulative, and even worse they're often extremely charming in some way or another and being so are extremely apt at getting people to follow their lead. At times they'll claim to see how they hurt people, only using the claim that to keep people off their back, so they fundamentally don't want to change their behavior (unlike schizophrenics whom I imagine would desperately want to escape perpetual hallucination and paranoia). I've also heard they characterize their victims as weak and/or deserving of what they suffered to justify their actions. As I said, because they are essentially indecipherable for diagnosis or treatment and are also a danger (as schizophrenics can certainly be but are treatable and self aware with proper understanding), antisocial personality types seem a much more direct threat to people's welfare. But that's just my perspective, I may be lacking in insight.

As for the thread's actual concern, I don't have any diagnosed disorder. There is alcoholism in my family on both sides though, and so generally habit-inducing or addictive in some regards. I also can be kind of neurotic about people, like being secretly hated or taunted by someone, as well as neurotic in my tendencies, and can be candy ass-ish in some ways (timid, slackerish, unwilling or unmotivated, etc.). I've been working harder recently on many of these things more recently, trying to change up my habits and mindset. So that's something.

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