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 Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions   Topic: Is Self-Diagnosis Valid?

Mion
Posted: 10 Dec 2011, 8:07 pm 

Replies: 95
Views: 14,489
I almost never take a person's self-diagnosis seriously unless they've had it confirmed by a doctor. I've seen kids who diagnosed themselves with Asperger's just because they're socially awkward, MPD because they act differently around different people, ADHD because they daydream in boring classes, ...

 Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions   Topic: Are some psychiatric labels just plain unfair?

Mion
Posted: 06 Dec 2011, 6:35 pm 

Replies: 23
Views: 3,576
The thing with BPD and abandonment is that the threat of being abandoned doesn't even exist most of the time, but the sufferer still makes terrified efforts to prevent it from happening. People with BPD have really unstable relationships, not to mention unstable emotions, and this does nothing but m...

 Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions   Topic: Which is more severe?

Mion
Posted: 19 Nov 2011, 10:16 pm 

Replies: 16
Views: 4,250
Schizotypal personality disorder is worse that schizoid (SPD). Personality disorders are generally less severe than the mental illnesses they are related to. Like, obsessive-compulsive personality disorder is related to OCD, but doesn't have the impaired functioning that OCD has. It's the same with ...
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