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Have Millie ADHD?

Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2008 8:57 am
by CptRaccoon
I think it is a very good question but it won't be very well to answer this question.

I think it because millie have al Symptoms of ADHD.
And I have ADHD by my Self.

Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 12:06 am
by Tom Flapwell
I'd say there's at least a 90% chance that a given psychiatrist would diagnose Millie with ADHD (certainly not just ADD). She expresses the symptoms more than some people I've known with that diagnosis. But I trust her mother to decline Ritalin for her.

Other characters may or may not have some mental disorder in their shrinks' eyes. I could see Jeremy with narcissistic personality disorder, Felicia with histrionic personality disorder, and Llewellyn with... oh, who knows.

Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 12:16 am
by Mista_B
Eh, all 'personality disorder' means is that you're different from what TV says you should be.

Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 12:32 am
by Tom Flapwell
According to the Abnormal Psychology course I took, any mental disorder is recognized in the DSM-IV as impairing one's ability to function in society. Personality disorders are no exception. Don't trivialize the suffering they can cause.

Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 12:37 am
by Baconsticks
According to the Abnormal Psychology course I took, any mental disorder is recognized in the DSM-IV as impairing one's ability to function in society. Personality disorders are no exception. Don't trivialize the suffering they can cause.
I knew it. All of us are retards.

Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 3:25 am
by Alestance
I'd be lying if I said you were wrong. :-P

Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 3:38 am
by Mista_B
Eh, "that person acts different than I do so they must be abnormal" trivializes *actual* personality disorder far more than I ever could. :millie:

Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 11:25 am
by CptRaccoon
Eh, "that person acts different than I do so they must be abnormal" trivializes *actual* personality disorder far more than I ever could. :millie:
What want u say me with that?
U know I can't understnad everythng in english.
can u writhe it in a other version please?

Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 1:28 pm
by Tom Flapwell
He's saying that we shouldn't apply the "disorder" label too much, because then it loses its meaning.

Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 3:53 pm
by CptRaccoon
He's saying that we shouldn't apply the "disorder" label too much, because then it loses its meaning.
What?

Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 5:58 pm
by Tom Flapwell
You know how, when you use a word all the time, it stops meaning much?

Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 6:39 pm
by rabid_fox
Pain in the ass syndrome, more like.

Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 9:20 pm
by Chris
CptRaccoon reminds me of millie!
oh look a cookie o: !

*runs*

Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 10:11 pm
by osprey
Here's a direct translation of what Mista B said, using Babelfish:
" dass die Personentaten, die also sie unterschiedlich sind als ich tun, müssen abnormal" sein; trivializes *tatsächlich* Persönlichkeitsstörung weit mehr, als ich überhaupt könnte.

Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 10:21 pm
by nickspoon
What B is basically saying is: "Mein Hovercraft ist voller Eel! Mein Hut, der hat drei Ecken. Drei Ecken hat mein Hut. And hätte er nicht drei Ecken, so wär's auch nicht mein Hut."