Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorder

[hope]

I suffer from PAPD.

http://www.thirdage.com/encyclopedi...sorder-papd-negativistic-personality-disorder

Thoughts? Examples?

 

[Rain]

I suffer from PAPD.

http://www.thirdage.com/encyclopedi...sorder-papd-negativistic-personality-disorder

Thoughts? Examples?

I can only think that every introvert suffers from this when talking to a rather stupid and or annoying person. It is not a real disorder. It is gut reaction to annoying behavior.

 

[Invoke Ninja's True Power]

check this out, i thought it was hilarious

http://www.comedycentral.com/videos/index.jhtml?videoId=222474&title=games-passive-aggressive-race

 

[SEELE01]

Is this one of those disorders where the primary symptom is reading the wikipedia article on the disorder?

 

[Mondorius]

Well, I don't know about others, but I'm definetely a fine example of that "disorder". I'm not too worried about it.

It probably has a lot to do with me having a hard time refusing directly to help others, wether this is because I'm being too nice or because I am somehow seeking a proverbial "pat on the back" for reasons I don't even understand myself. And also very likely to be due to the fact that my anger and frustration drain has been clogged for years.

And just to throw it out there, maybe I dislike sitting down and resolving conflict face to face, because then I'd be confronted with my own and the other person's feelings and have to deal with them...

But as long as you're aware, I'd say you'll be fine.

 

[Eljua]

Contradictory and inconsistent behavior. An individual with passive-aggressive personality disorder may appear enthusiastic to carry out others’ requests, but he or she purposely performs in a manner that is not useful and sometimes even damaging.

Saying you'll do something is the easiest way to get someone to go away in the short term.

Intentional avoidance of responsibility. Some behaviors that may be used to avoid responsibility include:

• Procrastination – to delay or postpone needlessly and intentionally
• Deliberate inefficiency – purposefully performing in an incompetent manner
• Forgetfulness

Well obviously if you tell someone you'll do something just to get them to go away, you're going to not actually want to do it, ergo it's not one of your priorities, so you're going to forget about it/not do it well/avoid doing it.

Stubbornness

Not mutually exclusive to this "disorder". I'm sure people who don't want to do something are pretty stubborn about not doing it.

Argumentative, sulky, and hostile, especially toward authority figures

Authority figures, aka the people wanting you to do something you don't want to do. Seems to me like a reaction to someone chasing up you not doing something you said you'd do to get rid of them, and then consequently, not done it; Perfectly acceptable responses

I'd go through the others, except it'd equate to me repeating myself over and over finally reaching the conclusion that this is pretty much a theory that's been created to try and classify why some people agree to do things, and then don't, without considering the obvious reason that being positive is the easiest way to avoid contact with another person. Answering no to a request generally ends with a debate over why you don't want to do something, and that generally equates to "I don't want to", which most people wouldn't accept as a valid answer, and then they'd try and force you to do something anway.

 

[Linada]

There really is a disorder for everything, isn't there? Too happy, too sad, too compliant, too disruptive, too tidy, too messy. I bet there is a disorder for being too normal as well.

All in all, there is a fine line between something being an expression of normal, and something being an illness. When something becomes a diagnosis, it often becomes a tool for assigning blame and shrinking responsibility, for all involved. Being unwilling to work on something is the real problem i think.

 

[Sapphire Harp]

Honestly, if ever there was a disorder that was made up for convenient purposes, I think it's this one... At it's heart, it seems like a disgust with people of authority or stature, combined with a degree of helplessness towards being able to resist them...

Better strategies could be learned by these people, true... but the only use I've seen of the terminology of 'passive-aggressive disorder' has been degrading dismissals of people below those in authority. It's a quick way to marginalize and blame the person who's not doing what they ask/tell them to do...
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[Miss Led]

As someone who says what I mean, and means what I say, I have no understanding whatsoever of passive aggressiveness.

I prefer the two parts be kept separate. I will either be happily passive, or nastily aggressive