Posted by SLS on December 20, 2010, at 6:09:50
In reply to Re: *Not* Thinking in terms of meds, posted by bleauberry on December 20, 2010, at 5:39:22
> I think pbabble does tend to highlight an OCD-like behavior amongst most of us....obsessed with meds.
I think you would glean more respect for the phenomenology of the mental illness known as "OCD"; a psychobiological illness that can prevent people from functioning in any milieu. There is a difference the meanings of the words "obsessive", "compulsive", and obsessive compulsive personality disorder (OCPD), and true OCD.
On a forum such as Psycho-Babble, I think it is critically important not to make the same mistakes of ignorance that are still perpetrated in the general population when it comes to mental illness. We owe it to ourselves to be careful with how we use clinical nomenclature.
- Scott
Some see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.
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