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Post by Mea on Dec 22, 2015 5:16:37 GMT
Anonymous asked: hi, so, my therapist mentioned offhand that she thinks i might have bpd, and i forgot to ask her more about it, so i started reading up (and came across this fantastic blog! thank you!) and i really do identify with a lot of what i've read. but the wiki page says sometimes health care professionals diagnose people they consider to be "difficult" with it, because they dislike working with that patient. is this an actual thing? i don't want to be insecure when i go to therapy, but...
Answer: When they say “difficult” in that context, they really don’t mean the patients themselves are difficult people. BPD is now becoming the go-to diagnosis when they can’t figure out what’s wrong with someone. It used to be bipolar, and for a lot of professionals still is. But ultimately, a lot of professionals, when getting a patient with a load of symptoms and they aren’t sure? “Uhhh idk. BPD? Probably BPD.” The “difficult” doesn’t describe you as a person, just their inability to actually research your symptoms and come up with more than one plausible diagnosis.
-Mea
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