#stigmatisation

People with ASPD (antisocial personality disorder) or/and NPD (narcissistic personality disorder), I am genuinely curious about what you believe is the core part of aspd and npd, and how you see the world. How does it feel to have these disorders? How do people treat you? How do you treat people? How can one understand how it must be like for you?

These disorders are VERY stigmatised. Even actual medical journals and sites perpetuate this stigmatisation, and there's this whole thing of "narcissistic abuse" or that all people with antisocial personality disorder are serial killers. I simply refuse to believe this, it's not nuanced enough, and I genuinely seek to understand. And maybe other people may find this thread of posts and also understand.

So people with npd/aspd, add on, explain anything you wish people knew about your disorder.

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Tw: discussion of delusions and psychosis, although no descriptions

Is it just me or is schizophrenia the ultimate fuck finger to society disease? Exactly because of the positive symptoms, the psychosis. There was another tumblr user who once talked about what a delusion is, and a very important part of it was 'a belief that does not correspond to any known subcultures or religions'. (If anyone remembers the tumblr user tag them). And if one might notice, the psychosis is what's disruptive or hard to deal with for doctors and nurses and allies, it's what doesn't make sense and is greatly "annoying or disturbing" or... socially unacceptable. Often when people imagine a crazy person they think of someone with schizophrenia, someone who sees and hears things that aren't there, someone who talks to themselves or their hallucinations, someone who experiences disorganised speech. I am simply so tired of doctors only treating psychosis because that is what's disruptive to society. (It can also be disruptive to the individual experiencing it, and it's valid if psychosis is what you consider your worst symptom, it is different for everyone). There has been done little to nothing to treat the cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia which can very often look like ADHD. ADHD and autism awareness can also show that bringing awareness to a condition can actually push researchers to study the condition and better the lives of the people affected by it. ADHD is a very talked about condition (which doesn't mean that ADHDers don't experience challenges and discrimination based on their neruotype) in Denmark it's the most common neurodivergence. And there is a lot of awareness about it which makes researchers want to research it and create better treatments. That just hasn't really happened to schizophrenia and schizo spectrum conditions yet.

Wow I really hope that made sense, please tell if I said something wrong or offensive I will correct it.