Hi Stig. My illustrious roll of diagnoses starting from when i was 18 have included schizophrenia, schizophrenia with disorder of gender identity ,schizophrenia with personality disorder,schizoaffective mixed type,bipolar, and currently stands at Personality disorder NOS qualified by comments such as 'with emotional and explosive traits' 'consisting of sensitive and explosive traits' 'mainly consisting of sensitive,compulsive,emotional,unstable,and impulsive behaviour'.
Then of course there's been the unofficial musings of various pdocs ie 'dependent personality disorder with probably some histrionic traits '. 'very dependant narcissistic disorder' and not forgetting years ago the very old fashioned 'nervous debility'.
Which just goes to prove the adage that if you give a hundred pdocs an imaginary patient with a set of symptoms they'll arrive at a smorgasbord of different diagnoses dependant on which symptoms they individualistically give most weight to.
Using a minimalist method of diagnosis they could call it 'mutliply messed up in the head disorder' . Sometimes it's hard to tell if one is 'normally insane' or 'insanely normal