Mental Health Today: Leave my personality out of it

An experimental study on clinical attitudes towards “Personality Disorder” diagnoses (1988) found that psychiatrists were more likely to see those of us with these diagnoses as manipulative, not really in need of help - even with the same symptoms as others (such as suicidal ideation, a previous suicide attempt, and insomnia). We fell on the wrong side of the (questionable) mad/bad dichotomy. The authors proposed abolishing "Personality Disorder" as a diagnosis.

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