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Re:77% of the population have symptoms of personality disorder? by jon_hendry on Wednesday September 01, 2010 @06:52PM (#1654613)
Sigh.

Everyone has one or two symptoms, a little, occasionally. To actually have a personality disorder you have to have lots of symptoms, often, to a severity that it causes problems in your life.

Lots of people have occasional headaches. You could also say those people have symptoms of a brain tumor. But that would be stupid because they lack many other symptoms of a brain tumor.

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Re:77% of the population have symptoms of personality disorder? by j_baker on Wednesday September 01, 2010 @09:08PM (#1654892)
I think the point of the article was to suggest that personality disorders are a continuum rather than a binary thing. I don't know if this is correct, but it seems a bit more logical than a "you either have it or you don't" philosophy.
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