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heavenlyabyss
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12 Dec 2013, 3:11 pm

All of my clinical psychologists I have ever had have said that the diagnosis isn't that important. I think the trend is to reject the DSM manual and I think it is the right trend.

Meds are there to treat symptoms of mental distress that are biologically based. They aren't there to cure, mythological "illnesses." This might be a controversial statement but I think we will see a change in psychiatry in the future.



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12 Dec 2013, 3:34 pm

heavenlyabyss wrote:
All of my clinical psychologists I have ever had have said that the diagnosis isn't that important. I think the trend is to reject the DSM manual and I think it is the right trend.


Psychiatrists often say that and still, tend to overinterprete the diagnostic boxes where they put their patients in, in the first place. :roll:


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13 Dec 2013, 4:30 am

Wow sounds like some of you explained my mom's ex. About five years ago she ran into an old friend from high school. They exchanged numbers and I told her it was a bad idea. I could almost immediately see he was one of those phony smooth talkers. Well they started dating off and on. He would come around our apartment for a few months, a fight would happen and he would be gone for a few months. this went on for years.

He never helped us with bills or anything, expected me to work and be the other income when I repeatedly had meltdown from anxiety or something. Didn't believe me, my sis and mom had anything wrong with us mental health wise. He constantly belittled us, but acted like the best person in the world in public.

He especially hated me. I could see through his lies as soon as he came around and he knew it. So he tried to convince everyone I was a manipulative ignorant brat. In reality he was projecting himself onto everyone. He also would say things like Oh the princess gets what she wants, when in reality I was trying to protect my mom from him. He had beat her and would make her stay with him all weekend. My mom told me he had cut her and held her hostage a few time.

I eventually stood up to him and called the police a few times. My mom finally realized he was brainwashing her after I told her I had enough and we moved. Thank God he is out of our lives.