couldntthinkofaname
Mage
- Aug 31, 2018
- 565
A personality disorder diagnosis is by far the biggest bullshit I have ever heard in my life. Everyone has their own different personality and who the fuck are you to say their is something wrong with it because you read a extra books in medial school and feel entitled to label someone. Someone who prescribes dangerous medications which they have no idea how they work and honestly don't do shit should be labeled as having a personality disorder.
A friend of mine was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. I thought that meant they were on the borderline of having one. I don't know why it's called that. I think it's just being emotionally unstable, but why is that considered a personality 'disorder' rather than a mental disorder?
sky7
Student
- Aug 21, 2018
- 109
A personality disorder is a mental disorder. And I think it's called personality disorders because it is that person's very essence that is considered at odds with society's expectations for "normalcy" (although show me a definition for "normal" --the DSM5 doesn't even have a good one in my opinion).
There is no normal. That's what's fucked up about it. The DSM is overly pathologising everything. I hate my condition but don't want to be normal. When I'm not depressed, I am blessedly disnormal
AnnonyBox
Specialist
- Apr 11, 2018
- 334
I would never trust one, enough of it isn't based on hard science, and some of it is based on psuedoscience, my time is worth more to me than the shitty salary of some virtue signaling quack who thinks they're helping people with noninformation and a profit motive to push a diagnosis.
Finally someone who gets exactly what I'm talking about. Psychiatry is not real medicine. Nutritionists are more of doctors in my book than psychiatrists are.
I was first prescribed a benzo by a GP. I used it for a mere 2 weeks and had the most severe withdrawal effects + permanent brain damage. That was when I fell into the grimy hands of psychiatry.
Each and every time I explained it's the benzos, they would dismiss it and go off tangent. "Anxiety w/ depression", "acute stress reaction", "psychosis", "schizophrenia", "delusional disorder".
The last "diagnosis" was the worst. The "doctors" were simply in denial of the effects of benzos and insist that benzos had a "two week withdrawal and at most two months" and as such insisted that I was delusional for accusing that benzo prescription for all the suffering, and that everything I experienced was "psychosomatic".
Benzo withdrawal wasn't even a matter of contention, it's a matter of fact. From the day I withdrew I could feel it working in my brain as clearly as one would feel stomach discomfort in food poisoning.
Each and every time I explained it's the benzos, they would dismiss it and go off tangent. "Anxiety w/ depression", "acute stress reaction", "psychosis", "schizophrenia", "delusional disorder".
The last "diagnosis" was the worst. The "doctors" were simply in denial of the effects of benzos and insist that benzos had a "two week withdrawal and at most two months" and as such insisted that I was delusional for accusing that benzo prescription for all the suffering, and that everything I experienced was "psychosomatic".
Benzo withdrawal wasn't even a matter of contention, it's a matter of fact. From the day I withdrew I could feel it working in my brain as clearly as one would feel stomach discomfort in food poisoning.
bigj75
“From Knowledge springs power."
- Sep 1, 2018
- 2,540
This! I remember my eating disorder was the root cause of my depression and I had to see a nutritionist which benefited me more than seeing my psych whos advice was to make more friends. Lmfao!
AnnonyBox
Specialist
- Apr 11, 2018
- 334
Just wanted to point out, the proper term is 'dietician' a nutritionist isn't based on hard science.
I only read your title. Yes I would never argue. They have a lot of power in a way.
Yeah they can technically imprison you for the rest of your life. They put me in a state mental hospital at one point and I met seemingly normal people that were in there for decades.
Dani Paradox
Permanently Banned
- Aug 17, 2018
- 981
Fuck em' all. Fuck therapists. Fuck doctors. Fuck dentists. Fuck surgeons. Fuck the police. Fuck the government. Fuck the AMA. Fuck the APA. Fuck Big Pharma. Fuck the CIA. Fuck the DEA. Fuck the world. Fuck everyone. But especially fuck doctors and therapists. And if you're reading this, fuck you too. (Kidding about the last one. I just like the way it sounded.)
Wantingpeace
Wizard
- Aug 16, 2018
- 672
Sadly yes. Psychiatry is absolute crap. Being told your personality is wrong and given that label for life.
Dani Paradox
Permanently Banned
- Aug 17, 2018
- 981
Personality disorders ARE bullshit. They're controversial amongst psychologists because there's nothing actually wrong with the brain. Any difficulties that may or may not arise are simply due to being so different. But there's nothing actually wrong with you. And any personality disorder is only considered a disorder if it causes distress to the individual. They aren't real disorders. The entire basis of the diagnosis is that it's a personality that differs from the cultural norm lol. They're bullshit.
I've had the same reaction by doctors "there no way a med can do that" "the half life is ... it's out of your system by now"
Sun Stealer
Experienced
- Aug 19, 2018
- 220
I went to doc to get this other drug for anxiety as Serequel I can no longer take. He said that is not a drug for anxiety. I said it says it is on national health service web site. He then told me he was a surgeon and was helping out due to shortage of doctors. You could not make that up
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