I find it interesting about the divide in wanting a disorder and treatment versus not.
I fall on the don't pathologize usual responses (grief or sadness after a loved one dies for example. I might go see a therapist to talk about it, but I would not consider it a disease that needed treating.) I don't go to see a therapist because I have a disorder that needs treating - I do not nor would such a label be useful to me. Having the woman try and label it as such would not be reassuring to me but galling in the extreme. I don't use insurance because I don't see it as a health issue for me (among other reasons like I don't want insurance companies involved in my life at all).
I am not going to tell someone else they don't have some disorder if they find some use for it - but I don't think it is something that needs to happen as often as those guys like to do it. I do think therapists and our society tend to make things into illness that are not or don't have to be considered such.
__________________
Please NO @
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Oscar Wilde
Well Behaved Women Seldom Make History - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
|