I typically lose it at weddings. Both my parents died when I was a kid, and I can’t look at the mother/daughter or father/daughter moments without thinking about me, and how I missed all those moments. I usually excuse myself because it’s really not about me that day, and I don’t want to make it so. I was in a good…
FrancieNolan
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Perhaps it's because it's a nosological category in the DSM still? I don't know, but that was my first thought. That since it's also the name of a mental illness diagnosis, people want distance from that in order to "de-pathologize" it.
For my first wedding, I didn't really choose colors. Our venue was wild and wacky, so I didn't have to. But my ex-husband's sisters made me, saying that having the bridesmaids all in different dresses just wasn't right. Well, fine. I chose purple, being my favorite color and one of the sisters cried, because she was…
Mental health professional here! You are absolutely correct, the treatment would not be the same. However, just because diagnoses share a nosological category in the DSM (or any other diagnostic manual in use) does not mean they must share an intervention modality. I actually think it helps free therapists and…
I have always been very thin, due to a genetic syndrome I have. A comment that should shock me, yet no longer does because I have heard it THAT OFTEN is: "Man, how do I sign up for THAT disease?!"