Posted by Camille Dumont on April 11, 2004, at 16:18:09
In reply to When diagnosis becomes identity, posted by skeptic on April 10, 2004, at 20:53:06
I read something insightfull about taht in a p-book. Notice how the names of disease are different if they are permanent or temporary.
Like you say he IS diabetic ... but not he IS a broken leg or he IS a cold.
When they are temporary ... they are most often reffered to as something you HAVE rather than something you are.
Most often doc will not say you have a depression, they'll tell you that you are depressive, bipolar, borderline and what not.
Hence perhaps the tendency of us becoming the illness ...
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