Following up on this:
http://schizophreniabulletin.oxfordjour ... 1/108.full
My therapist, who asserted he got an A in his psychopathology class, did not even know the terms ego-syntonic or ego-dystonic or the difference between obsessions and restricted interests and during the period I talked about wanting to blind myself, he either described that as delusional or obsessive; he wasn't consistent in how he considered that. (I consider it a preoccupation/overvalued idea, as I did want to blind myself, but I kept insight and recognized it as a warning sign; in keeping with a vow not to repeat what I did at age 14, I make sure to share my warning signs with my doctors. But I wonder if bringing them up so much, being so unusual a patient like this, confuses them.)
Oy vey. I am talking with one psychopathologist online, however, and I find my conversations with him to be a lot more fruitful than the conversations with my doctors. He seems to have a deeper understanding of psychopathology and is in contact with European psychopathologists, who simply seem to be better at their jobs.
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"You have a responsibility to consider all sides of a problem and a responsibility to make a judgment and a responsibility to care for all involved." --Ian Danskin
23 Jul 2014, 9:49 pm
