"Personality Disorders" and Neuro-Developmental Disorders

Rashomon (1950)

Val's Take/Conjecture

• There's a certain "Rashomon effect" to societal discussions about Human Behavior.
• Even beyond different people in the same time and place having different perspectives of the same incident, we have people in different times and places having greatly different perspectives.
• What I want to submit is:   Assuming that people are  telling the truth as best they can:
  • How can these accounts all be true "in some respect" / not all respects --- and reconciled to avoid a complete Contradiction.
• This website has addressed Anti-Social Personality Disorder and the emerging view that it is in fact a form of "ADHD."
  • "Anti-Social Personality Disorder" and "ADHD" are categories in the DSM 5.
• More recently, there is no shortage of speculation that the Myers-Brigg category of "INFJ" is actually Autism, including by a psychiatrist at Harvard and YouTubers with Autism.     Hmmm. . .
• The challenge with these discussions is we don't have FIRM (RELIABLE) DEFINITIONS --- we have definitions of categories that are in flux, have been called into question and are in the process of being re-conceptualized

Myers-Briggs

• Discover Magazine (2023)
  •  The Myers-Briggs test is not considered valid.

 
DSM 5

• Psychology Today (2013)
  • The NIMH [National Institute of Mental Health] Withdraws Support for DSM-5

Personality Disorder: Unscientific & Vague --- Must be Reformed

anti-social personality disorder as a form of adhd

The "DSM" Personality Disorders were trying to cluster together personality traits that were  seriously problematic.

Interestingly, a prominent historian of psychiatry challenged whether these were in fact "disorders" or just "people who couldn't get it together."

I would say a few things:
There's a lot of "unconscious bias" in all this:

• The Public Health System "may" be deemed a more appropriate place for you if you are White and Middle Class.
• If you are White and Poor or a Person of Color ---- a jail or prison may seem a more appropriate placement.  [I'm talking here about people who may have an average or above average IQ, but nonetheless have significant needs]
  

Families, communities, government agencies, private agencies are struggling FINANCIALLY under the weight of Neuro-Developmental Disorders that last:

• a lifetime and are not static
• are not well recognized or accommodated
• often are getting worse because we haven't had biomarkers and most researchers and some clinicians would admit the treatment is "rudimentary."
  

"ADHD" is over-represented in Criminal Justice Systems around the world and is more and more openly acknowledged by law enforcement, attorneys and first responders.

• NeuroLaunch:  Can You Be a Police Officer with ADHD? Exploring Challenges and Opportunities (August 4, 2024)
• ADHD Alliance (UK):  Helping the
  Emergency Services Understand ADHD           "We help staff in the Emergency Services live with ADHD and drive change throughout the Criminal Justice System."
• ADDITUDE:   How An ADHD Diagnosis Changed My Life: A Lawyer’s Story                                                                      "When I first opened my coaching practice in Washington, D.C., I was surprised by the number of high-powered attorneys with ADHD who sought my help."
• Fire Rescue (Florida):  Dealing with Attention Deficit Hyper-Activity Disorder in Emergency Services