Considering personality disorders - I'm reminded of this passage, from
Dr. Tara Palmatier's presentation at the Detroit Conference:
According to psychologists Jean Twenge and W. Keith Campbell, authors of “The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement,” there has been a 67% increase in narcissistic behaviors and attitudes over the last twenty years, mostly among women. They also estimate that 10% of the population suffers from Narcissistic Personality Disorder – although, let’s get real; it’s the non-disordered people in close proximity to the narcissists who really suffer.
In 2004, the National Institutes of Health found that 14.8% of the U.S. population meets the criteria to be diagnosed with at least one personality disorder, from a sample of 43,000 interviewees. This study did not include Borderline Personality Disorder, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, or Schizotypal Personality Disorder. And therefore, the percentage is very likely much higher.
Let's just take the 10% estimate for NPD, plus the 14.8% from the 2004 NIH survey. That's 24.8% - one in four. Psych Central says 2% of the population has BPD, and 3/4 of them are women - so 0.5% are male, 1.5% are female (3%
of females). 27.8% ... They also say 3.9% of the general population has Schizotypal PD, so I'll say 3.9% of women have it. That brings the total up to 31.7% - nearly one in three.
One in
three.
Two chambers of our split-tail six-shooter are loaded with clinically-defined crazy. Russian roulette, anyone?