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Originally Posted by VenusHalley
Maybe they weren't mean, but helpful. And why can't normal person make distinction, or suggest they think so? People guess what others may be experiencing all the time. Let's see, I caugh and caugh. Go to doctor, they make some stupid diagnosis of let's say flu. My friend, who experienced something simmilar says "that is not a flu!". Is that friend mean or out of the line? After all, when it comes to MH, it's about self-reporting and observing. There's no tests for "brain defect" (I am actually offended by this, bipolar with borderline traits... I am not "defective" and my brain if intact... brain/mind distinction is kinda unhelpful, as they are interconnected). And again, if their "defect" is in brain rather then mind, shouldn't 8 years of med attempts fixed it?
DependING how they mean it... but it could very well be a helpful suggestion. And if more people says it? There might be something about it.
(and hey, many of us here went to doctor and came to our diagnosis with help of observant friends, who knew something is not right).
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Seriously? By definition, a personality disorder is a defect of the mind. Are you going to argue with me that a person suffering from psychosis after unwittingly taking a steroid based compound has a mental disorder, rather than a brain disorder? What about someone suffering from an endocrine disorder that presents as a mental disorder? The pathology and delineation between mind, brain, and body is not always clear; I've made a deliberate error in my example above, do you see it? The presenting symptoms of bipolar and borderline personality disorder
overlap considerably, friends and family do not, typically, have the medical training necessary to do a differential diagnosis. It most certainly can take 8 years to find the right treatment.
I still stand by my previous opinion that she should see a clinical psychologist.