Thanks deferred diagnosis!

Just when I thought they couldn’t give more proof of the fact psychiatry is useless.

Editor on May 23, 2007 at 12:05 PM

My thoughts exactly.

Because personality disorders may be defined as enduring and inflexible behavioral patterns that are not as likely to change over time, insurance companies sometimes refuse to reimburse psychotherapy fees when the patient/client has received an Axis II diagnosis, i.e., a personality disorder diagnosis.

And

In the mental health field, the category of personality disorder has become a pejorative concept[citation needed]. Of all of the personality disorder categories, Borderline Personality Disorder, and Antisocial Personality Disorder, have become most negatively identified categories[citation needed]. Some clinicians refuse even to specify which Axis II category may be present, using instead the evasion, “Diagnosis Deferred”

Ya get that? That means ” the insurance co. won’t pay me to tell you why your miserable. See you next week.”

Respected biographer Sally Bedell Smith has written an exhaustive account of the highly conflicted and dysfunctional life of Princess Diana. Diana: In Search of Herself–Portrait of a Troubled Princess (Signet, 2000), puts Diana’s life in perspective by separating her essential traits from the mythic personality created by the media and then showing how these traits guided her behavior and her relationships. Smith personally interviewed over 150 people. Researchers culled through thousands of pages of public and private documents. The result is an objective account of the life of a young woman tormented by mental illness but also possessed with the beauty and charm that led many to love, even worship, her.

Central to the book is the proposition that Diana suffered from borderline personality disorder, bulimia, and bouts of serious depression. Aside from whatever biological bases there may have been for these disorders, Diana’s childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood provided sufficient situations and stressors to account for psychodynamic, behavioral, and cognitive roots of these disorders.

I love a man in a kilt.

Pulchritudinous Patriot on May 23, 2007 at 2:10 PM

A particular weakness of mine, I must confess. Why do you think my favorite vaca spot is Edinburgh? ;)

The original Star Wars film was released on 25 May 1977. Much to the surprise of many involved in the project, including the studio which backed it, it became a runaway success.

The celebrate the movie’s 30th anniversary here are 30 facts and figures related to the film which influenced a new generation of film-makers.

Really, “Doctors!”

Aren’t you a bit carried away with this?

Perhaps YOU are the one with the mental disorder.

William

SicSemperTyrannus on May 23, 2007 at 2:34 PM

Yes and thank you. In 1997 I faced the choice of walking away from my fiance or wading into a situation forecasted as likely failure. For three years we worked hard to overcome what would have killed most new marriages. I read everything there was at the time. We went through two therapists before we found the right guy for us. A PhD. Cognitive behavioral therapist. I have to be careful not to give medical advice, apparently. We celebrate our 9th anniversary with our 3 yr. old daughter in August. I see the psychiatric community has not changed much in 10 years. There’s good ones out there. It’s hard to know you’re with the wrong therapist when they’re supposed to be helping You.

Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader could “clearly” be diagnosed with borderline personality disorder…

Ya Think?

And it only took them 30 years to figure it out.

Changing his name and turning into “Darth Vader” is a red flag of Skywalker’s disturbed identity, note Schmitt and colleagues.

Ya think?

…Darth Vader is simply emo.

I’m actually pretty amazed. I was expecting them to call him a Republican or something.

Farmer_Joe on May 23, 2007 at 11:47 AM

That’s already been done. When Episode III came out, the press kept asking Lucas about the “similarities” between the events in the movie and current events in real life (Iraq War, War on Terror, etc.) – there was also discussion about the “similarities” between Bush and the Emperor.