Posted by ed_uk on December 6, 2004, at 11:32:56
In reply to Re: Benefits versus risks of diagnosis in psychiatry, posted by banga on December 6, 2004, at 11:16:15
Hi,
Thank you for your reply. You mentioned being in psychology, are you a clinical psychologist? It's strange not really knowing who you are talking to, whether they are male or female, how old they are, what their name is or what they look like. (Except Scott who has a picture on his website!)
>"you dont have depression-there is no such thing, you just have alcoholism and are in denial"; or on the other side "you dont have alcoholism youre just depressed". or "there is nothing physically wrong, you just are a hypochondriac and have depression" (when I had serious vitamin b12 deficiency.)
.......People are very judgmental sometimes. They assume to know so much about you when really they know very little.
There is something very 'attractive' about the DSMs classification system. I expect that it's highly appealing to psychiatrists with obsessive-compulsive personality disorder!!
Regards,
Ed.
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