Posted by Amanda29 on October 17, 2008, at 19:29:37
In reply to Mental Illness in Your...., posted by JayMac on October 17, 2008, at 19:08:08
I was adopted into my family and so I do not know if I got my mental illness from my parents or what not. I do know that in the family I am with now, depression and anxiety are pretty strong. But, I present with major depression, severe anxiety, Borderline personality,OCD, PTSD, and Bipolar Disorder...plus severe issues of abandonment.
My T does use the DSM to diagnose..BUT...he doesnt believe in labels...so he never really tells his patients their diagnosis. I just know because of previous therapists... I didnt understand for a while why he didnt want to be completely honest with his patients and tell them what was wrong with them, and he told me that there is more to it than labels. He didn't want me to spend my life living under a label and feeling like it was a death sentence and that I couldnt enjoy my life because I was "mental". So he told me he likes to focus on the symptoms and not the label and to target the symptoms that are causing me trouble and help me to make things easier.
Anyway, that is my 2 cents... :)
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