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This Onion article gives a good overview of Borderline Personality Disorder, but the idea is pretty much given away in the title:  Totally Hot Chick Also Way Psycho .  Read more about BPD here . Overall, if you feel up and down, very moody, empty, lonely, have difficult relationships with others, have anger outbursts, become frantic when abandoned, feel ambivalent about closeness (see classic book I Hate You--Don't Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality ) ; engage in black and white/all or nothing thinking, cannot be  empathic to others, are impulsive and reckless in your behavior, and have self-harmed, these are good indicators that you may have some BPD tendencies (note of the obvious: I cannot diagnose you using this webpage.  I can't even see you.) BPD is debilitating (although you can be high functioning BPD and nobody knows how you really act except your intimates) and people have long thought that it did not respond to therapy.  Now we kn...

The Surface Pro 3 is officially available from Microsoft with the company touting the hybrid device as a true notebook replacement. However, a lot of do-it-yourself tech junkies out there are singing a different tune. DIYers in no way see the Surface Pro 3 as a notebook replacement, instead viewing the hybrid as a tablet only through and through, according to iFixit. iFixit, which is based out of San Luis Obispo, California, is one of the most well-known electronics repair companies in the country and recently acquired the Surface Pro 3. Once in hand, iFixit decided to tear the thing apart (in a professional way) to see what Microsoft had stuffed inside it and to determine how easy or difficult it was to reach the internal components. On iFixit's repair score spectrum, which rates how easy or how difficult it is for a DIYer to get inside and replace things, iFixit rated the Surface Pro 3 the lowest possible score of 1. Several characteristics of the hybrid were to blame for the inc...

How did anyone ever think I wasn't a jackass? twitter.com Imago theory is the most important idea you will hear about today, especially if most of the people you talk to are under 3 years old.  So get your thinking cap on, like when you were back in college, before your children sapped you of all of your mental sharpness. The idea behind Imago theory , created by Harville Hendrix, is that you are attracted to people who remind you on a very deep level of your parents (or primary caretakers)- both their positive and negative traits.  Yes, I am serious, and keep reading. At first, during the glowing honeymoon stage, we only see the positive (e.g. "he takes care of me like dad did").  Then, as the relationship progresses, if conflicts arise, we begin to see our caretaker's less-than-ideal traits (e.g. "she smothers me like my mom does").  Then we spend our time trying to mold our partner into the type of person we had wished that our parent was (so, take the co...

If you are bored at work or you need something to annoy your partner with when they are just trying to relax and watch TV, try taking the Five Love Languages quiz at www.5lovelanguages.com/profile/  . Just kidding, I really think the 5 Love Languages quiz and The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts can be a great conversation starter within a relationship. When working with couples, this is one of the early tools I frequently use to figure out what each partner most needs in the relationship.  The Five Love Languages are: Quality Time, Words of Affirmation, Acts of Service, Receiving Gifts, and Physical Touch.  What is your number one?  What is your spouse's?  Your child's?  (My top one used to be Quality Time.  After having three small children, I think it has changed to Acts of Service, aka Watching the Kids.) How often have you given a gift that turns out to be not what you partner wanted, to put it mildly? If each spouse is trying to ...

Tomorrow is the day. Finally, the Apple WWDC for 2014 is here! This particular convention is one that you will be talked about for a while after it finishes. We all know Apple to be the top dog in terms of consumer electronics and tech devices, so we know for sure that this year's event will be a big one. You have to figure that there have already been quite a lot of rumors surrounding Apple recently. With the iWatch consistently talked about around the internet, the recent deal they made with the one and only Dr. Dre for his Beats, and the talk of a new iOS, this should be quite the conference. Since the deal isn't finalized with Dr. Dre yet, we probably shouldn't expect to see much, if anything at all, about the incorporation of the Beats into Apple's technology. While we might not get to see anything with the Beats take the stage yet, there is still quite a bit to look forward to. Arguably the biggest part of the conference will be the new iOS and OS X. Whenever ther...