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Daryl17
30th October 2006, 03:17 PM
I have a friend who swears he has a spirit guide who guides him and warns him of danger. Do you think it could be a form of personality disorder?
Azrael 5
30th October 2006, 03:29 PM
Is lying a disorder?!
Daryl17
30th October 2006, 03:43 PM
Is lying a disorder?!
Am I lying? No. Is he lying, probably not, he really believes it as far as I can gather.
Flange Desire
30th October 2006, 05:23 PM
Is delusion a personalty disorder?
RemieV
30th October 2006, 07:12 PM
The SAPS article "Psychics and Mental Illness"

http://skepticalanalysis.com/id34.html
jmontecillo01
30th October 2006, 07:49 PM
When my house burnt down, only one book survived. That was a children's book "The value of foresight, the story of Thomas Jefferson". Because of this book, I got interested in American history.

Jefferson claimed that his watch advices him. This is obviously auditory hallucination. But without the effort of Jefferson, things like the Luisiana purchase would not have occured. Imagine if the purchase had been blocked because of what he claimed. America would be less than half of what it is right now.Jefferson had the foresight that resulted in what Americans enjoy now.

Spirit guide? I don't know. It could be it was simply coming from our subconsious, telling us what is right and what is wrong.
rustytunes
30th October 2006, 08:02 PM
I have a friend who swears he has a spirit guide who guides him and warns him of danger. Do you think it could be a form of personality disorder?
Gullible, more like. How did he come to believe this? Did he pay some psychic, see it on psychic detectives, read about it in a book?
PBTree
30th October 2006, 08:28 PM
I have a friend who swears he has a spirit guide who guides him and warns him of danger. Do you think it could be a form of personality disorder?

get a small balloon, fill it with water, wait until your friend isn't looking and throw it at him. If you hit him get him help, if he ducks without turning and you miss, tell him to register for the $1,000,000.
rustytunes
30th October 2006, 09:32 PM
get a small balloon, fill it with water, wait until your friend isn't looking and throw it at him. If you hit him get him help, if he ducks without turning and you miss, tell him to register for the $1,000,000.
But the guide may not interpret a water balloon as dangerous...
Zygar
30th October 2006, 11:42 PM
But the guide may not interpret a water balloon as dangerous...

Get him a credit card that's not from Capital One.
luchog
31st October 2006, 11:36 AM
Get him a credit card that's not from Capital One.

As someone who deals with credit card fraud for a living, and as a former Capitol One credit card holder, I wouldn't strongly recommend not being too confident in any credit card issuer; definitely including Capitol One. There isn't a single bank or issuer that hasn't had some sort of security issue.
Zygar
31st October 2006, 04:04 PM
As someone who deals with credit card fraud for a living, and as a former Capitol One credit card holder, I wouldn't strongly recommend not being too confident in any credit card issuer; definitely including Capitol One. There isn't a single bank or issuer that hasn't had some sort of security issue.

Agreed. 100%. I worked for JPMorgan Chase in the credit card technology department for 5 years.

Anyway, it was a joke based upon this (http://www.tubespot.com/node/320).
CBVan
31st October 2006, 04:31 PM
But the guide may not interpret a water balloon as dangerous...

Fill it with acid, not water.