Posted by socialdeviantjeff on January 16, 2004, at 3:04:26
This may be more of a thing for PB psychology, but I'm not sure.
I was talking with my pdoc, he's a very frank sort of person who takes the "drugs only, sir" approach.
I asked him about my dx, and he said he is trating my issues as a depressive disorder. My dx is psycohtic depression, GAD and OCD. He said that my case is extremely complicated because of my bizarre drug reactions. We discussed some of the overlaps between my symptoms, Bipolar II and BPD. He said that he would not rule out the possibility of BP II, but he han't seen any evidence of hypomania. He said that if drug treatments didn't work at all, after trying everything with no or partial response, he would say it was a possible personality disorder. He did say that there is no evidence of character problems so he doubts that a personality disorder would be it.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but on the cogntive-behavioral model, the pathology of personality disorders comes from maladaptive behaviors caused by external stressors. People with inherent tendancies towards these behaviors develop these disorders.
I really only buy this to a point, but where does "character" come into this? Philosophically, I see the building of character as what happens when you eat your peas, lose gracefully, get grounded, stuff like that.
So, what I don't understand is how could a personality disorder be a character deficit? it makes no sense to me.
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