[leomama]

Is anyone knowledgable about this? I'm looking for people who've been diagnosed as a teen , diagnosed a teen or has a friend or family member that was diagnosed in their teens.

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[Trippin2.0]

As far as I am aware Personality Disorders are only dxd after 18.

[leomama]

Originally Posted by Trippin2.0

As far as I am aware Personality Disorders are only dxd after 18.

Thank you. I actually got asked to leave a borderline community because I held this point of view.
Have you heard of the work of Blaise Aguirre?

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[Lauliza]

I'm in the mental health field - personality disorders are not officially diagnosed until after the age of 18. Too many characteristics in common for a diagnosis to be accurate.

[leomama]

Originally Posted by Lauliza

I'm in the mental health field - personality disorders are not officially diagnosed until after the age of 18. Too many characteristics in common for a diagnosis to be accurate.

Thank you I appreciate that. I have your point of view but not your credentials. I am going to talk to my therapist tomorrow about giving my daughter the MMPI-A. What do you think about this test?

[Lauliza]

I am a masters level mental health counselor (though not yet licensed ). While I'm not qualified to give an expert opinion, I do know that the MMPI-2 is highly regarded and considered a valid, reliable test.

[leomama]

Originally Posted by Lauliza

I am a masters level mental health counselor (though not yet licensed ). While I'm not qualified to give an expert opinion, I do know that the MMPI-2 is highly regarded and considered a valid, reliable test.

Excellent, I am looking forward to what my therapist has to say about this. Do you think that narcissism is an extreme form of PTSD?

[Lauliza]

Complex trauma does seem to be at the root of personality disorders in one way or another. So while I can't say that narcissism is a form of PTSD, there is certainly a link between the two.

[leomama]

Originally Posted by Lauliza

Complex trauma does seem to be at the root of personality disorders in one way or another. So while I can't say that narcissism is a form of PTSD, there is certainly a link between the two.

I think so too. I have complex trauma and I benefited from Dbt and mood stabilization .

[Lauliza]

I'm glad they have worked for you. DBT is amazing, I think. I've done it (with an individual therapist, not a group) and it's the only therapy that I've ever found helpful. I didn't want to do it at first but it really resonated with me once I gave it a try.

[leomama]

Originally Posted by Lauliza

I'm glad they have worked for you. I have also done DBT (with an individual therapist, not a group) and it's the only therapy that I've ever found helpful.

I'm doing CBT now and that's working too, it didn't work before. I guess I had to work through my emotions first.

[here today]

I didn't find either DBT or CBT helpful to me. I came into therapy over controlled and disconnected from my emotions, perhaps that's why. I have had an extraordinarily hard time getting in touch with my core. Without that, techniques are just that, techniques. And I had already developed some myself.. Maybe they weren't as"good" as what DBT and CBT have to offer but those didn't help much because they weren't what I needed, probably.

[leomama]

Originally Posted by here today

I didn't find either DBT or CBT helpful to me. I came into therapy over controlled and disconnected from my emotions, perhaps that's why. I have had an extraordinarily hard time getting in touch with my core. Without that, techniques are just that, techniques. And I had already developed some myself.. Maybe they weren't as"good" as what DBT and CBT have to offer but those didn't help much because they weren't what I needed, probably.

Were you diagnosed with a personality disorder as a teen?

[here today]

When I asked my psychiatrist if I was psychotic or neurotic, he said I had a character disorder, which is what is now called personality disorder. I don't know what was on my chart back then, probably just anorexia nervosa.

[Atypical_Disaster]

I wasn't diagnosed officially with any personality disorder until I was 18, which well that's still technically a teenager isn't it? As soon as I hit 18 I was diagnosed with ASPD and NPD.

Before 18 my diagnosis was Conduct Disorder.

[leomama]

Originally Posted by Atypical_Disaster

I wasn't diagnosed officially with any personality disorder until I was 18, which well that's still technically a teenager isn't it? As soon as I hit 18 I was diagnosed with ASPD and NPD.

Before 18 my diagnosis was Conduct Disorder.

Yes that still is a teen.
I had an IEP done in my daughter in 4th grade and although she had traits of conduct disorder they had not reached clinical levels.