I got to thinking. How does your T feel about diagnostic labels?

My first T diagnosed me with GAD, depression, and OCPD. The Pdoc I saw at the same time added bipolar and borderline. I took those Dx's to my GP. After two years of therapy and getting off a couple of meds, GP said there was no way in hell I was bipolar or borderline, so they got dropped.

My second T and I never addressed anything but OCD. She said I was definitely not OCPD. After treatment with her, my OCD symptoms were practically cured.

My GP says current official Dx's are GAD, depression, and OCD.

Current T hates diagnostic labels. The only thing she has Dx'd me with is adjustment disorder. She says I have OCD and borderline "traits" but I am neither OCD nor borderline. She said the bipolar Dx was ridiculous (which it is...I argued with it when I received the Dx). She once stated she could parade 100 people through her office an hour at a time and figure out how to diagnose 98 of them as borderline.

I'm not asking everyone what their Dx's are; it's not my business. I just want to know where on the continuum your T falls in handling the diagnosis of disorders; is he/she trigger-happy with Dx's like my first T/Pdoc, or he/she eschew them altogether like my current T, or fall somewhere in-between?