Defense attorneys for Jerry Sandusky, the former assistant football coach at Penn State who is accused of molesting 10 boys, may argue that the man suffers from histrionic personality disorder. So what is it? Lovefraud readers sent links to articles that explain:
What is histrionic personality disorder? on CNN.com.
What is histrionic personality disorder? on Health.Yahoo.net.
the sisterhood
I don’t know but maybe I’m reading HPD wrong. I thought the symptoms of this were very close to BDP but with an added element of being inappropriate sexually in everyday situations. and dressing provocatively to get attention. Both PD seek attention through drama making schemes and fein sickness/illness for attention. Some Narcissists do the same thing. All of them seem to overlap one another. We’ve even discussed this on here before.
What I’m basically getting at is that I don’t understand how Sandusky’s lawyers can even think that this is a viable defense strategy. Anyone who knows anything about PD knows that they are not in the realm of psychosis. If anything, putting a PD label on Sandusky will put a nail in his coffin. Even more reason to believe he is guilty of all he is on trial for.
All the research I have done on PD have said time and time again that PD’s are NOT insanity. People with PDs know exactly what they are doing.
He is sick SOB for sure. But a SANE SOB.
Ox Drover
Annie and Truthspeak, I’m not sure I am capable of writing an article about the things you speak of as far as “self care”—not sure Ii can put that into words, but will ponder upon that and see if I can come up with something. Don’t put any time limit on me, okay?
I’ve got some self care issues coming up for myself….in January I dropped a tackle box on my achilles tendon and hurt it…the doctor told me it was NOT ruptured, the second doctor also told me it was NOT ruptured and put me in a cast, and now I find out it IS RUPTURED and I will have to have an operation or be crippled for the rest of my life…so I’ve got to decide what to do. Son D is gone from home right now so I am here by myself…and so will have to make arrangements for stuff to be taken care of in my rehabilative staage…or wait til Son D comes home first of August…going to the doctor tomorrow to discuss these issues.
Medical personnel are not good patients…
Annie
Oxy – so sorry to hear about your achilles tendon. Since January – thats a heck of a long time to be misdiagnosed! Hope you’re OK.
It sounds like you’re going to need more than just self-care. You have my sincere sympathies – a friend of ours went through that and was in a cast for a long time. Not to mention that he said that it hurt like a son of a gun when it happened. So sending you lots and lots of hugs. If it’s waited this long, could the operation wait until August when your son’s home?
Ox Drover
Annie, thanks, won’t know the details until tomorrow when I see the doc again…so will see what happens. I am sort of furious at the doctors (two of them) and am actually considering suing them….will at least talk to an attorney about it.
skylar
Oxy,
a lawsuit will depend on how much permanent damage you end up with as a direct result of the delayed surgery.
Based on that, the attorney will decide if 33% of the take is enough to spend his time on it. If the attorney regularly does malpractice suits, then it might be worth his time because his paralegals will do all the work and it will just be a matter of cut and paste legal work.
If he has to do a lot of new research, then probably not worth his time.
So anyway, the attorney won’t really know if it’s worth his trouble until much later, when you are completely healed and there is permanent damage due to the delay.
That’s not legal advice, just what I’ve learned from experience. I’ve had a lot of accidents.
darwinsmom
All the best wishes, Oxy on finding a solution that suits both your taste and needs!!!!
My experience medically when it regards to tissues that aren’t solid bone: very difficult to diagnoze. November 2010 I had a painful left knee, let it rest and assumed it would get better… but didn’t. After a month I thought: well at least let’s start exercising again… did a zumba evening… next day when I got up, I’d drop right through my leg… that left knee could do even less. SO, that’s when I went to the normal house doctor. He did a simple test and said he thought it might be my meniscus… But first I had to let an echo be taken from my knee. The echo doctor said he couldn’t see anythign wrong with my meniscus… all he saw was a little bit of moisture where it wasn’t to be expected, which ‘might suggest cartilege issues’. So, next exam was an MRI. Says the specialist (who saw the echos and MRI): definitely NOT the cartilege, looks like meniscus after all. And he proposed an operation… So the week after the MRI the specialist had an operative look into my knee and turned out it was my cartilege after all… my meniscus was A-ok, but cartilege was somewhat broken.
My mom has been operated last week for similar issues and same thing – no, not the meniscus; hmm, yes must be meniscus… after op: menisucs tear + cartilege.
But at the very least the doctors should try and find out: tests, including a small ‘take a look’ operation.
Truthspeak
Oxy, omigosh…..I am SO sorry to hear that your tendon was ruptured! The achiiles is the worst, too! Keeping you in my most positive healing thoughts. Hugs
G1S
I found the article below this morning about Sandusky’s charity.
http://openchannel.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/06/19/12284171-ghosts-of-sanduskys-dreams-haunt-empty-home-where-his-charity-was-born?lite
The Ph.D. who was the director of the program made a statement that he hoped his resignation would start to restore confidence in the charity. He oversaw the charity for 30 years.
One of the boys who went through the program, who is now 30, said, “You can’t judge a program by one person.”
Another one called Sandusky a saint.
Uh huh.
Louise
I think Sandusky’s going to get off. I said this before…it will be interesting to see what happens. There is no physical evidence…it is only his word against these now grown men. This is so devastating and sad.
Ox Drover
Sky,
Other than just “feeling of the leg” and saying “the tendon is not ruptured” there was NO diagnostic work done at all by the first doctor at this practice and he just gave me a cortisone shot. in the heel then.
Second doctor tookk an old film X ray (that BTW was improperly done) and so LOW tech that you could hardly see the bones on the film much less anything else. He put me in a cast for a month.
Third doctor did a digital X ray and BINGO the tendon rupture was very apparent.
The first two doctors are across the street from the hospital imaging center with state of the art X rays and MRIs, none of that was done. They just used the old style film x rays which were inappropriately positioned.
That delay resulted in 6 months of pain and suffering as well as disability. Pain on a scale of 1-10 that was a TEN.
I understand how that works with the lawyers, I used to do research for a medical mal practice attorney….and I won’t get as much compensation at my age as a younger person would for the deformity but my point mainly is that this set of orthopaedic doctors need to get proper images done with current technology and I want my law suit to show them that. I have a friend who is a mal practice attorney as well so hopefully I will be able to send them a message and there will be enough money in it for my friend to tackle the case.
I am not one who is “sue happy” with doctors, and I’ve let a lot of incompetence slide….but this is totally unnecessary.