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Old Jul 08, 2013, 12:30 AM
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My therapist is a Marriage/Family/Therapist and I live in CA.
If she is a master's level marriage and family therapist, she should be able to make a diagnosis. They are trained in how to use the DSM. Whether she will make a diagnosis or not is another issue, or even if she does, she may not choose to volunteer the information. It is probably most straightforward to just ask her. My T is not big on diagnoses so we haven't really had a need to discuss this topic.

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I'm not a very confident or outgoing person so being so direct and questioning would be hard for me….
Learning those things is part of therapy. Start now and ask her!
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