Posted by Penny on January 14, 2004, at 11:21:45
In reply to Re: (((((ELLE))))) MY SISTER!!!!!! » Dinah, posted by Elle2021 on January 14, 2004, at 5:07:51
(((Elle)))
I can't relate as well as Dinah has to your pain over this diagnosis, but might I say that a diagnosis, IMO, is just a category that they try to fit you in for paperwork's sake, and from the many people I've met online and in person with various diagnoses (and many who clearly had something wrong with them but were never diagnosed with anything!), I don't know that you should allow this diagnosis to influence you at all if you can help it. You are the same wonderful person today, Elle, that you were before you knew the label that has been applied to you. A different doc might have given you a different label. It doesn't change who YOU really are!
I guess mental health professionals have to have a way to categorize - I know insurance requires it at the least - but at least in the case of my pdoc and my T, they don't place that much emphasis on someone's dx. So perhaps this T won't either.
You are a unique individual, Elle. You are who you are, you have certain traits, some wonderful and some that are not so desirable to you - so does EVERYONE! Your pdoc is not a fortune teller (you should give him a copy of the list of cognitive distortions and ask him which one of those he can apply to his statement that therapy won't last long for you!) - he can't possibly know how therapy will go for you.
Don't let this get you down! Don't let this change one positive belief about yourself, period!!!
P
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