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Originally Posted by PsychoPhil
Thanks for saying this. No matter what little time older persons may have left to live, it's all they have and spending it less miserably still makes all the difference to them. Or me. Something has been causing me issues all my life, and I'd finally like to know what. Even if any diagnosis will just be a human made up and inherently imperfect box of symptoms.
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I do not get this argument.
How does having a diagnosis make your life better? You say that even made up incorrect diagnosis are helpful?
I would say that even if we know 100% what a diagnosis is, in the case of mental health, it may still be better not to give a patient a diagnosis. A diagnosis can hugely damage the self-image of a person. I see here also often people who claim they have the wrong diagnosis and experience all kinds of stress about that. So how do people not think it can be dangerous, even for professionals, to come up with a label, act like it is an actual pathology, and stick it on a patient?
If your personality is causing you issues, it is you, the personality. It is not some third agent. Maybe that is something people like about a diagnosis? They can blame the diagnosis when something goes wrong, not themselves. Now, they may not have to blame themselves in the first place.
So why get a diagnosis when you are old, when we know there is no scientific or even medial objective way to determine a diagnosis? Why make something up and burden the patient with it if we have absolutely no good reason to believe it is actually based in reality, or that it will benefit the patient?