Must be all of this stuff is starting to get to me

dilettante said:
I'm becoming more convinced that geographic psychology is a real thing. Like so many human issues, individuals are a separate issue from the greater herd mentality we live amidst.
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And the very thing that is banned today ie generalizing about nationalities is misguided. We CAN with fair accuracy generalize about nationalities.
 

davey said:
she could be depressingly psychotic?
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She could be a number of things.

My mother was an undiagnosed borderline personality disorder. She does however fit it to the max. It was also a therapist who told me, based on the true behaviors of my mother that I told this therapist, that she believed my mother was a borderline.

My mother did not exhibit her behaviors with my bio dad that I ever remember. However, when she married my stepfather when I was 6 (he now says he wishes he never married her and was scared of her before they even got married) her behavior went off the rails. She was a raging screaming maniac in no time. He was passive and took all her abuse. He also says she was physically abusive before they got married and he still married her.

People know the environments where they can get by with things. And where they can't.

People will say borderlines can't control their behavior. That is BS. Once I made my mother mad in the grocery store. I had no idea. She didn't change, she said nothing. The minute the car doors closed, she flipped and was scream raging at me. What had I done? I had interrupted her while she was hawk watching the cashier.
 
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hollydolly said:
I'm a Scot, and we're traditionally known as very friendly people. We talk to everyone, everywhere...

Here in the South of England where I've lived for 50 years it's the absolute and Polar opposite. even after all this time I occasionally forget myself and strike up a convo with someone , and then see the suspicion in their eyes immediately, and I stop...

.....or lately, and I don't know if this has been because I'm older now.. but I find sometimes if I start to pass the time of day with someone in a queue ., they start replying in a patronising manner..like I'm some old gaga person whose been let out for the day.. and I'm talking about people my age, not youngsters... because it's so entrenched in these people not to speak to strangers that if someone starts a conversation with them.. then that person must be Nuts...or got some old timers disease... It's the most unfriendly place I've ever lived...
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Once your divorce is finished will you relocate?
 

You are too nice, I would have said that she is committing slander and you deserve the apology. And if she/the store caused a fuss, take your story to your local news station. Amazing how people change their stories, once shown their true colours in public.
 

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