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Problems with therapist 2017-07-02 09:39:09 Post No. 18478517
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I've been seeing a therapist for a few months since I withdrew from university and need to get a letter from a therapist in order to return.
I asked him what his diagnosis of me was. He said that he thought that I had a personality disorder (he said either "borderline or schizoid"). I've read a fair amount about both disorders, and I don't think that it's an accurate description of me. At a stretch, I meet maybe 3 criteria for borderline and barely 2 for schizoid.
How do I bring this up to him? I've been in similar situations before and I find that these assholes always go on the defensive when you question their """""scientific analysis""""". I just don't want my university to think I have a severe mental illness.
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>>18478517
>I don't think that it's an accurate description of me
People with personality disorders rarely think and believe they have a personality disorder.
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If you don't like what they have to say get a new one dumbass.
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>>18478522
I'm open to having a personality disorder, it's just that it's pretty easy to evaluate if you meet the criteria, and I definitely don't.
>>18478538
Not really how therapy works, and there aren't really other options where I live. Besides, I'd rather keep on seeing someone who I have a 6 month long relationship with, than having to go start over with some different person who would probably be even less competent than the first.
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A personality disorder would be a minor mental illness OP. They are the most common of mental disorders, and can be successfully treated with cognitive behavioural therapy. It's not like its proper severe disorders like bipolar or schizophrenia. which can only be held at bay with medicine, often unsuccessfully.
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>>18478565
You already stated you don't believe your therapist. You really think you'll take any advice we'll have for you? Because our judgment is so much better than the educated? If you won't move on then it's about you needing to man the fuck up and speaking your mind or accepting the help that you're lucky to even have in the first place.
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>>18478565
>it's pretty easy to evaluate if you meet the criteria
Then why do you need a graduate degree in psychology/psychiatry to practice op
I'm not saying shrinks are right 100% of the time, but everyone knows self diagnosis is bullshit. Even psychs themselves never self diagnose; it's impossible to be objective when dealing with yourself.
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>>18478517
Get another therapist to diagnose you and if they say the same thing you are in denial.
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Just keep switching therapists until you find one that will give you the letter.
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>>18478517
therapists cannot diagnose you only doctors can, as in psychiatrists. Ask your therapist to refer you out to a psychiatrist and ask them what they think of your symptoms at your first appointment.
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