How do you deal with mental illness?
ratsbane: You've already won more than half the battle.  You seem to have made a very studied and pragmatic analysis of yourself and you've shared that with your peers.  That is a lot more than most people will ever do and it's certainly a big part of learning to control the the personal quirks which bother you.  But you seem to have done that already to a large degree and that's commendable.  It's almost the new year and I'm starting to think of my own goals for 2009 - your post makes me start to think of some things of my own which I'd like to change.  Thank you for writing this post.