Personality Crisis (You Got it While it Was Hot)
I wasn’t doing much this afternoon,
just listening to the New York Dolls when
I got an instant message from a friend,
she told me to
take the personality disorder quiz
at 4degreez.com.

A personality disorder is a set of traits that negatively affect your life

So they ask me my gender,
and 69 other questions
about my general social behavior.

then they tell me I’m
moderately schizotypal
highly histrionic and narcissistic

so then I try telling them I’m female,
give them my answers,
and suddenly I’m
Highly schizotypal,
Highly histrionic, narcissistic
and
moderately avoidant and dependent.

I guess women are just more prone to fucked-upedness than men.

I ‘click here for more information’.

There are 10 recognized personality disorders

Paranoid Personality Disorder
distrust others
avoid close relationships
Schizoid Personality Disorder
avoid relationships
prefer to be alone
Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder
Focus on order and perfection
avoid working in teams,
believing others to be too incompetent.
Antisocial Personality Disorder
careless with money
take actions without thinking about consequences
prone to criminal behavior.
Borderline Personality Disorder
people with this disorder have constant mood swings and bouts of anger.
Threats of suicide are common.
Schizotypal Personality Disorder
Characterized by
odd-thinking
isolation-seeking
eccentric behavior
elaborate speaking
and they believe themselves to have extra-sensory abilities.
(I know I do, how about you?)
Histrionic Personality Disorder
Crave attention
Dress provocatively
use grandiose language to describe everyday events.
(that’s me!)
Narcissistic Personality Disorder
(they told me I had this too)
self-centeredness
expect to be recognized as superior
They often make good first impressions
but have trouble maintaining long-lasting relationships.
(I thought that was funny,
cuz I’ve never had any trouble with long relationships.
It’s the first impressions that are troublesome
cuz I have a tendency to scare people,
even though I’m a perfectly peaceful person.)

Avoidant Personality Disorder
(apparently I have this to a *moderate* extent)
Extreme social anxiety
they create fantasy worlds in place of reality.
Dependent Personality Disorder
A need to be taken care of
cling to people for fear of losing them.
(I think they told me that I might be dependent
because I told them I feel the need to be in a relationship
but I think that has more to do with the fact that I’m a
horny teenager
than any lack of independence,
because y’all know
that as a teenager
there isn’t much I want more than independence.)

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
Personality Crisis
you got it while it was hot
but now frustration ‘n heartache
is what you got