Posted by alexandra_k on April 5, 2005, at 19:45:56
In reply to Re: seeing self almost everywhere in DSM :-P, posted by Shy_Girl on April 5, 2005, at 18:26:16
There is a name for first year psychology students seeing themselves in most of the diagnoses they learn about.
I can't remember it - but I was warned about it specifically. The whole class was.
It is that the symptoms aren't so very radically different from 'normal' life problems. It isn't typically a difference in kind - but rather a matter of degree. So it is possible to see oneself in a great number of diagnoses. But it is the DEGREE to which the symptoms cause problems in ones social and occupational functioning that result in one having a mental 'disorder'.
Thats why you need somebody objective and trained to make a diagnosis.
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