#ppd safe

Last night I freaked the fuck out while I was falling asleep cause I thought that the melatonin I took might've had something wrong with it and if I fell asleep my heart was gonna stop🫩

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Schizophrenia spectrum personality disorders 101

Optimal vs adequate vs disordered functioning in personality disorders

Personality disorder info (general)

PPD carrd

hammersys's PPD resources

PPD wikipedia page

PPD 101 based on the DSM-5

Understanding PPD

PPD is associated with emotional abuse

Millon's PPD subtypes

PPD vs NPD

PPD vs StPD

Paranoia treatment 101

Community

@ppd-culture-is

@paranoia-culture-is

self-help strategies for paranoia

get help from others

[PT: Paranoid Personality Disorder (PPD): Symptoms and Characteristics /End PT]

Paranoid Personality Disorder (PPD) is a cluster A personality disorder. It is characterised by persistent distrust in others and assumptions that people harbour negative thoughts and have negative intentions towards the pwPPD. It affects roughly 2,3% to 4,4% of the population.

Symptoms include:

persistent suspiciousness and mistrust of others

suspicion of being exploited, injured, or deceived by others

being fixated on unjustified doubts about the reliability of people in one's life

being reluctant to confide in others out of concern that it will be used against oneself

misinterpreting things in the environment as having an underlying belittling, hostile, or threatening meaning

holding onto grudges

being quick to interpret others as attacking one's character/reputation, and being quick to meet this with a counterattack

The ICD-10 (the International Classification of Diseases, 10th Edition) proposed 4 subtypes of PPD: expansive, fanatic, querulant, and sensitive paranoid personality [PT: expansive, fanatic, querulant, and sensitive paranoid personality /End PT]. Psychologist Theodore Millon [link] proposed 3 additional subtypes: obdurate, insular, and malignant [PT: obdurate, insular, and malignant]. More on the subtypes here [link].

As with many other conditions in general, PPD is most often genetic. Physical and/or emotional abuse in childhood can also contribute to the development of PPD. Brain injury is also, it seems, a trigger for developing PPD, as higher rates of the personality disorder can be found amongst those with brain injuries.

PPD + AvPD system culture is, after lots and lots and LOTS of research, coming to terms with the fact that I have DID, just to almost immediately decide to not get professional help. No, I'm NOT getting a diagnosis, because to get a diagnosis I need to open up about the fact that the person I am is made up of SEVERAL parts, and almost every one of those parts are introjects, and some were introjected on purporse; and, no, I'm NOT going to therapy, because for therapy to work I have to open up about the fact that I was sexually assaulted as a kid and, of all the stuff I have gone through, that's the one I struggle the most to face; and I'm not doing any of it because I'm TERRIFIED of being judged by how my system works and fakeclaimed by a shitty professional or, even worse, to have a therapist somehow use my trauma against me. Nope, nuh-uh, too risky so forget it. Most of us parts refuses to even consider the idea when it was brought up, and those who brought it up and were considering it got too scared of the VERY REAL (because DID is an already stigmatized disorder everywhere else, much worse in our heavily ableist latin american country) possibility of being hurt and having our life ruined by some ignorant bastard.

Curse you if-I'm-perceived-I'm-gonna-end-up-hurt disorders!!! This sucks.

-🪽🪡 anon