ZenAlex

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  1. He's not diagnosing anyone with selfishness, but people with Cluster B personality disorder tend to be quite self centered. It's just a fact. People with BPD often have Narcissistic traits as well. They tend to be manipulative.
  2. Do something new. Hike. Be mindful of diet. Stop watching TV. If you've just started detoxing from unhealthy habits, realise it may take time for your to feel different.
  3. You will die one day anyway, you have 1 shot at life.
  4. Accept that you will be bored sometimes and shouldn't always look to stimulate yourself. What helped me is throwing away my xbox. I spend much more time walking outside now.
  5. You've mentioned therapy and drugs, you haven't mentioned much about lifestyle. What sort of lifestyle were you living while trying to recover from this? Lifestyle made the biggest difference for me. I find that Lifestyle seems to be the biggest contributor many mental health issues.
  6. I'd personally be just getting a mortgage on a decent property, have my own place, and just enjoy being financially secure, and live your life. I love having 5 figures in the back simply because it's there for security.
  7. The whole thing about "nothing mattering" is the same sort of thing as people saying life has no meaning. But things can matter TO YOU. Just like things have meaning FOR YOU. Meaning could only ever be subjective because what gives something meaning is the value something brings to your life, and what brings value to you may not bring value to someone else. It's subjective but it also exists in whatever form matters. If you're in a state of mind where you think nothing matters, then you're depressed. I'd highly suggest avoiding drugs of any kind until you're in a better state of mind Life is not a bi-product of meaning, meaning is a bi-product of life.
  8. All this Alpha, Beta, Sigma bullshit is amusing. So many people obsessed with their social status.
  9. If Turkey Tom wants to focus on merely the parts of Actualized.org that he's concerned about, I don't consider that unreasonable.
  10. I think I may have schizoid personality disorder. I feel similar to you, you should look it up.
  11. 3 out of 40... Interesting that I scored reasonably high on the psychopath test lol.
  12. Your score from primary psychopathy has been calculated as 2.4. Primary psychopathy is the affective aspects of psychopathy; a lack of empathy for other people and tolerance for antisocial orientations. Your score from secondary psychopathy has been calculated as 2.6. Secondary psychopathy is the antisocial aspects of psychopathy; rule breaking and a lack of effort towards socially rewarded behavior. Interesting. I'm surprised I got such a high score tbh. I don't think the test is in depth enough.
  13. The difference between them is emotional activity. Psychopaths are more born, and they tend to have low neuroticism and tend to appear more robot like, and lacking emotions in general, not just lacking pro-social emotions like guilty, empathy etc. Sociopaths are more made, and tend to have a greater range of emotions, often tend to be more impulsive, and tend to appear more human, but like the psychopath, they lack those pro-social feelings like empathy and guilt. They often tend to have mid to high neuroticism. Psychopath - Ted Bundy. Sociopath - Ailen Wunroos, dianne downs, casey anthony.
  14. Forget about the good guys/bad boys dichotomy, it's stupid. Be confident and don't be a pussy. You don't have to be a terrible person, just don't be too nice.
  15. I experienced something similar in my jaw, but also in my nose and my brain as a whole. I caused myself some discomfort that lasted months and stopped focusing too hard during meditation. If you have ADHD or naturally weak attention span, you're having to put a lot of strain on maintaining that level of attention, be careful.
  16. Are narcissists confident? Considering they crave validation I'd say not.
  17. 1. Get your mind in a better place. You cannot save the world yourself, so accept what you cannot change. 2. Do your small part to contribute to making it better. 3. Just because so many people are miserable, doesn't mean you have to be.
  18. I'm basically schizoid. I rarely to never find anyone attractive. I don't get laid ever and I don't care. The way it feels? Just think of everything else you enjoy, and imagine being able to do all that and be happy with life without need for orgasm, an no sexual urges.
  19. I think people take this "alpha" and "beta" thing far too seriously. The only thing objective about being an alpha male is that you are the dominant male in a social hierarchy. That's it. Everything else is just people making up shit as they go along, creating characters like "alphas" to try and become that thing so they can think better of themselves and compare themselves more positively to others. I've seen so many people descriptions of alpha males and they often differ quite significantly. And considering humans live in big societies where you can be dominant in one situation and not dominant in another, the whole alpha male/beta male thing really doesn't make much sense when applied to humans. We don't live in tribes/packs anymore, we don't assert dominance through violence as a primary tactic to establish order. Sometimes we might, but you don't see people doing this often. You try to assert dominance through violence and you'll often end up in jail. You've just created an idea of what you consider to be an ideal man and applied the term "alpha male" to it. Those traits are simply your preferred traits. The reality is a dominant male may be a complete psychopath womanzier who doesn't give a shit about women and sees them as nothing but pieces of meat, and can end up being far more sexually successful than 99% of men. Or a dominant male could end up being a fantastic lover who loves women and treats them with respect. The only thing that determines being an alpha male is dominance over others, nothing else matters to determine who is the alpha or not. But I really think humans who really give a shit about being "alpha" are just insecure people who care way too much about how they compare to others, and think worth is purely determined through social class.
  20. Caffeine is the main issue. If you enjoy coffee just go for decaf. If you need caffeine to get you through your day then your lifestyle likely sucks.,
  21. Nah, I'd say the psychologists definition is correct, it's just about finding a method to make it work, it's not as simple as flipping a switch.
  22. Does anyone have any decent sources to determine what the limit on eating nuts should be? I can eat between 35-70g per day of mixed nuts - Cashews and almonds. They're a great way to get enough calories and be healthy, just wanting to know what you guys think?