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Jul 25, 2015 at 07:37 AM
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Funny, there are 14 pages on the borderline forum and barely 1 on schizoid... Think this is a function of how many of us there are or how seldom we communicate?
Not sure I would categorize myself as schizoid--I have been diagnosed with everything... I definitely have the traits and most of my biological family has some form of schizoid, schizotypal or schizophrenia. But I loathe labels. Not great experience in the system... does the label help you guys? Sometimes I think it creates a self-fulfilling prophecy... Plus the stigma is different as a personality is the fundamental basics of who a person is... I probably have some weird combination of every disorder in the DSM. |
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Jul 25, 2015 at 02:47 PM
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The point of diagnosis, as I understand it, is for a few reasons. 1) Insurance. 2) Communication between healthcare providers. 3) Treatment. 4) Possibly to help you communicate your experiences with people close to you like family.
If none of those are practical or helpful to you, then there's no point in it IMO. Otherwise it could be rather helpful. It's not really supposed to be like in high school where people wore labels like jock or nerd. That's often how people can see it though, so the negative association is understandable. Of course there is the potential for that to happen and it does, all said. As to there being such little activity on the SPD page, I think it's two-fold. One reason being as you guessed. Also, I don't think there are too many with the DX on this particular site. If they are, they have other things going on where they post more (like depression or dissociation). That's my guess. __________________ "The days were dark And the nights were bright I would never trade tomorrow for today" -Rush |
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