I am sorry I did not have time to elaborate, tried to again and got interupted again. The reason I shared what my therapist told me was that we were discussing cluster B traits and what someone I have been badly affected by may have. The conversation turned into having to be careful about looking up different diagnoses in that it can get confusing for anyone in that they can see certain characteristics that may seem like the person or even themselves for that matter may have one of these traits when that is simply not the case. Then my therapist explained to me that it's not unususal for people to experience another person with ptsd and begin to think that person has one of these disorders when that is simply not the case. He did explain to me that women especially that suffer from PTSD can be misdiagnosed and that when someone actually specializes in working with trauma and ptsd patients he can tell the difference. He said ptsd is a "disorder" and a person struggling with it can show certain reactions that can appear to look like certain "personality" disorders. He talked about where the term "histerical" came from in that it's rooted in "histerectomy" which is the removal of the area of the female that drives her hormones and we all know that women go through different hormonal levels where some women get bad pms symptoms and can get overly emotionally sensitive. He talked about how men especially used "she is too histerical, she is just crazy, she is a loon", in that men found female emotional challenges often what are normal to women very frustrating to understand.

Just interesting how he explained it all to me and how certain labels put on women came from.