Posted by Dinah on March 19, 2003, at 4:09:58
In reply to How many mental illnesses can 1 person have, posted by WorryGirl on March 18, 2003, at 18:17:09
Noa is completely right. I'm kind of surprised they hit you with that list all at once. My therapist has always tried to do it more conversationally, rather than throwing DSM-IV diagnoses around. At any rate the DSM-IV diagnostic method is unbelievably arbitrary and doesn't reflect real life situations well at all. Overlap between diagnoses is unbelievably common, as is not quite fitting a particular diagnosis.
Don't let the labels get you. You are the same person five seconds after getting the diagnosis as you were five seconds before. You are uniquely you. The human brain is far too marvelous and complex to reduce to a set of diagnostic codes.
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