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Old Jun 07, 2013, 11:37 AM
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Originally Posted by The_little_didgee View Post
My psychiatrist mentioned BPD is a misused and overused diagnosis. I think this approach is a generalization, because it doesn't form a representative sample of the disorder, since all "difficult" and "defiant" clients with and without a PD are grouped together.
I've met several people with BPD who were not hard to deal with at all. Some are even so malleable it becomes a problem. Then some I've met have been quite vile. I really have a hard time imagining they have the same thing. But according to the manual, there might just be one symptom overlap between two people with BPD and that in itself is strange. It's like then where is the essence of the syndrome?
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