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Old Nov 17, 2018, 06:40 PM
BudFox BudFox is offline
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I don't see it as a question of right or wrong diagnosis. Most of the nonsensical "disorders" in the DSM are simply not valid conceptually.

I think just the process of submitting your thoughts, feelings, tendencies to someone who presumes ability to decide whether you are normal or not... that is poison in itself, and fundamentally a charade. It's also incredibly invasive. Even if the therapist does not apply a diagnosis but gives various pronouncements about your mental fitness, they are still dangerous and overreaching. The more they refrain from these things, the better in my view.

"Over the last 40 years as a dissident therapist and activist, I’ve known many people who were so negatively impacted by their subjective experience of receiving and indefinitely enduring a psychiatric diagnosis that I’ve come to see such dehumanizing labeling as the infliction of what amounts to a medical curse." -- Michael Cornwall, PhD