Posted by Cecilia on November 4, 2001, at 2:02:40
In reply to Re: Borderline Personality Disorder Meds » Elizabeth, posted by sar on November 3, 2001, at 21:49:24
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> > I think it's absurd, but some clinicians advocate adding "depressive personality disorder" to the DSM. The proposed diagnostic criteria are in the appendix to DSM-IV (you can read them, and some discussion of the concept, at http://www.geocities.com/ptypes/depressivepd.html), but there's no indication of how depressive PD would be distinguished from dysthymia.
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I`ve never figured out how avoidant personality disorder is distinguished from social phobia.
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