Fisticuffs wrote:
and I wasn't even going to bring this up at first
Right. Now that you have had time to read the DSM, you are willing to.
Fisticuffs wrote:
You think I or anyone is supposed to take your opinion seriously when ... you clearly don't even know or understand your own diagnosis?
Yet that has been the diagnosis I have received from 3 different psychiatrists over the last 10 years. [shrug] Maybe that is part of why I think the DSM needs some work, since a number of psychiatrists don't seem to put stock in it.
Fisticuffs wrote:
you can't even accurately portray your own disease that you have the MOST experience with
Would you rather I portray it as major depression with cyclic episodes of lesser depression, at times elevating to mania? :rolleyes: How do you diagnose it? Bipolar depression? Only bipolar? Only depression? Do you believe the symptom set can not exist? Given your previous comments on psychopathy, you know that if the APA doesn't say it's so, it must not be :rolleyes:, so I should apologize that my life does not fit into how you read the DSM. :(( Or maybe this is part of the difference between book learning and experience.
Fisticuffs wrote:
you have never actually witnessed
How does your ongoing denial make it so? If I say you are a teenage troll looking for a fight, do you think it reduces your knowledge? You have experienced what little you have, and I give you full credit for it. If you want to continue to call me a liar, go ahead. For your future patients, I hope you understand the difference between saying your patient doesn't understand what they have seen, and saying they didn't see it, when you have no clue.
Opacity, the new Transparency.