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Originally Posted by djclark01
I agree with you somewhat but I disagree with you in the fact that people can sense when you have a disorder and they often stigmatize that person. For all intents and purposes I am a normal guy but I will never be normal in their eyes. I am also no less of a person with a personality because I have the disorder however, and I didn't mean to put that across that way.
It's too bad that your husband never pursued being a psychologist because I think its a great field to be in right now, but I can understand that it can be hard for someone to play by unreasonable rules. He can always do it by the book until he has his own practice, where hypothetically, he might have a bit more freedom.
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I think you or I have misread something along the way. What i mean by a therapist labeling someone crazy, I mean that the person they are trying to help the still have not understood, so instead of continuing to talk to them they are labeled crazy. For example, a therapist or even a "normal" society person is talking to someone with schizo-effective disorder or even full blow schizophrenia and since they don't understand them they automatically think that they are crazy. I hope that makes a little more sense.
I have even asked him myself about why he doesn't just do that. His response is that most therapist and psychologist are told they cannot get "attached" meaning that they cannot constantly worry about every patient they have. Most psychologist and therapist will listen and give you advice about the situation or whatever they need to do. But with him its different. Not only would he help and give you the most logical advice he can, but he would worry more so over every patient he has. for example, a patient who suffers from depression comes in and he is severally depressed and he knows he has three small children to also worry about on top of being depressed. He would give him whatever advice he can to help him, but the minute he walks out the door he would worry all night long whether the patient is coping ok or not.
So instead of having to deal with all that worry, he basically just uses it for me. Since I have several disorders and sometimes he notices the signs of them before I even bother to tell him. When I first got with him I wouldn't tell him anything I would basically "explode" and it would just go from there. Now he has learned to watch for signs and before I "explode" he gets me talking. So I guess in a sinse its actually a good thing.