... You mean activities that are spiritual, but not religious? It's unclear from your post just how much of these kind of activities you are aware of, but you...
Mike R., you've asked what sounds like a simple question but which is actually quite a bit more complicated than it seems. A full answer may be beyond the...
Stephanie, I am sorry about your boyfriend. When we lose those we love, we have a terrible wound that needs to heal and an emptiness where something good was....
... I think that Charles Murray's "little platoons" idea applies here. In short, Murray says that in order to have cohesive social groups, they must organize ...
... I'm not so sure of this as I used to be. I don't think it's so much the decline in religious faith that has improved the world over the last few centuries...
I've been curious whether emotional pain can be misused to gain emotional sensitivity. As an analogy: when the skin is cut or bruised, it becomes far more ...
dear dr branden: ... but its text was blank. i was concerned something important had gotten omitted. (it'd be wonderful to see a nathaniel branden blog.) ...
Dear Dr. B, When you posted your announcement of your blog, the message was blank. Nobody knows how to get to your blog. Some kind of Yahoo anti-spam thing was...
... Now I'm thinking about that Joan Jett song: We are not to blame For thinking love is pain I like Joan a lot. But my experience and observation, with the...
Stephanie, I am sorry about your boyfriend. When we lose those we love, we have a terrible wound that needs to heal and an emptiness where something good was....
... Baumeister (yes, the same guy who wrote about the "dark side" of self-esteem) has some research to suggest that negative emotions are stronger than...
My point may have been mistaken here. It is also possible that I may be overlooking the obvious answer. My question is not whether pain is desirable; rather,...
... When younger, I rejected all theodicies out of hand. As time has gone on, and I have learned that people lose consciousness when the pain really is too...
One of the outcomes I did not foresee when beginning my quest for self- esteem several years ago was the development of a deeply-Spiritual practice. By...
... This sounds very much like tonglen, a Buddhist meditation practice. Google Pema Chodron tonglen and you'll find more about it. I always like it when I come...
Did Ayn Rand have a Borderiner Personality Disorder - on the alternative, strong borderline traits? Why might she have had this: *Some of her actions show a...
If Ayn Rand is considered borderline based on the characteristics below, then I think a large percentage of the population is borderline. If traits become as...
Hi:) I think you're just another sicko who is trolling this list. Of course I don't know enough to give an informed opinion about this. I'm just raising this...
... I am not saying I know enough about you to come to a diagnosis, but something tells me that you don't know enough about this condition to be diagnosis...
Daveywavey who has a really gayvey nom de guerre asks oh-so-innocently if AR ... I consider myself an expert, or at least a veteran, on this subject, having ...
Thank you for your answer Mike Lee. I was actually genuinely asking and found your answer informative, especially as you've had a first hand experience with a...
Two other comments: a) Of course you can have a borderline borderlne. To be a BPD under DSMIV required at least 5 out of 9 characteristics. Someone that has 4...
Hi Davey, I think your response illustrates a problem with diagnostic labels. The DSM-IV is useful in terms of describing a range of behaviors, but there is...
Hi Ellen, Thank you for your kind words. While I disagree with some of your ideas, I don't think that matters. One of the ways I differ from many Christians...
... Whaaa? You're as likely to find borderline borderlines as to find North and South Koreans having a picnic and holding hands in the DMZ. Real borderlines...
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