Here's the thing about diagnosing people... isn't it sort of impossible without their cooperation?
I mean when you don't have their active co-operation and their sincere responses to probing questions, how can it really mean anything?
And then of course-
"It is no measure of health to be sane in an insane world."
There is nothing necessarily wrong with fitting the criteria of a mental disorder. The big question is whether it is maladaptive in the person's life - and this depends on subjectivity - ultimately coming down the patient's own hopes and desires.
Last edited by yossarian; 01-11-2009 at 11:38 PM.
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