There again, because of the limitations I went into into therapy with, I was not
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. . . able to judge when there's no point in going further in that particular direction. You have to be able to tolerate the losses related to giving up something you have invested in quite a lot but that most probably doesn't lead anywhere according to your current judgement. The trickiest part is that there isn't really anyone there to tell you what would be the right thing to do and you have to decide it on your own.
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I was not able to navigate the tricky part well because I lacked an integrated, flexible sense of self. Again, what I went into therapy with.
I was diagnosed with PDNOS 7 years ago, after a breakdown 15 years ago. Before that I believe I would have qualified for an OCPD diagnosis if the clinicians were diagnosing PD's then. I certainly functioned and looked at the world in a way that is similar to people with that diagnosis.
While the PD diagnoses may be "pathologizing" labels, they COULD also be used as tools by the clinicians to help pinpoint likely problem areas that the clients cannot see themselves, because of the nature of personality disorders!
Schema therapy was not available when I started therapy, but it looks to me like it CAN help to identify and maybe address limitations clients come into therapy with. So me, too, if I were starting out with therapy now, that's what I would look to -- if I knew then what I know now about my limitations back then! Which I didn't.