Ffs What Else Can They Possibly Diagnose Me With ?????

[Anarchy]

The reading I've been doing, suggests that some researchers at least, and I'll include linehan and co authors in the book about DBT with adolescents, amongst them...
Consider "symptoms" and which ones some one has, and to what extent, as being more important for functioning, treatment and outcomes, than "diagnosis" and labels.
In researcher speak, they find a "dimensional" rather than a "categorical" approach more useful.

Certainly the idea of discreet ,illnesses" each with its own treatment is useful to a drugs salesman, but it is of much more questionable value to the rest of us.

One of the case vignettes presented by Sebern fisher, in her neurofeedback book is of a woman with severe developmental trauma who introduced herself as " I'm a borderline ". Fisher interpreted that as the poor woman having so poor a concept of self and identity, that she had latched onto that, rather than have no identity at all.

That woman appears to have been an extreme version of the difficulty that I and several others here have with writing our résumés and describing ourselves.

Laurie, you're the you we all know and love, not a diagnosis.

 

[SnowJo]

I suffered horrific abuse as a child from being thrown around, dropped down the stairs and landing on...

That makes me so mad!!!! The abuse from siblings often is the hardest and cruelest. I too suffered constant humiliation at the hands of 2 of my siblings who saw me as a symbol of their troubles and an easy scapegoat, luckily the other 2 siblings were amazing people and my best friends growing up. I have made peace with the eldest who had a shitty deal but isnt a badly intended person today, but the elder sister has proven to be hateful to the core even to my own child. So apart from living on the opposite side of the world, I now have cut them out of my life completely after trying to connect and understand where they were coming from and seeing the hateful spiteful deceitful person she actually is. Due to being a drug addict she hasn't changed and it's time to let go, with less than half a life to go I want to be free from her viscous ill intended poison. Doing this freed up sadly a flood of rage and grief from all the events I had pictures for related to her but had distanced myself from the feelings because I has felt it would be wrong to feel that badly about a fellow victim and a sibling. I am now relieved to live in the truth, sad too but mostly excited to break free from her constant abusive script that I now realise had a profound effect on me and one of the biggest challenges to firming a positive self image / core me


I realise this is probably off track... the labels I too detest them but have noticed on the spectrum of a lot of them like autism tbi etc there are "symptoms" but I choose to focus on building the me that was surpressed by the abusers and unshackling my "soul" or core to soar and be me for me, not a me that learned to survive the assholes of my past.

You have some great advice already on the labels issue so I decided just to relate instead. To me you are awesome, honest, brave, kind and funny.

Have a great day.