Posted by alexandra_k on June 13, 2005, at 5:19:40
In reply to Re: (((Alex))), posted by Damos on June 11, 2005, at 23:59:49
I don't know about my druggie mates...
Sometimes I really think that they help me out. When I'm in a really bad place then sometimes getting high is enough to snap me out of it.
But othertimes I can be doing alright and then after hanging around with them for a bit I get a downer coming down for a couple days afterwards.
And sometimes it sets me into a bit of a ruminative mood and I can't get anything done because I write druggie ramblings and need to throw it all out later.So I don't know. Mixed blessing, I guess.
> Yeah, I've read about those exclusion criteria and honestly it is a crock, pure and simple.
:-)
They are aiming for another edition of the DSM in... 2011 I think I heard.. I'm not sure on the dates. The DSM has been categorical up to this point. There are different kinds of dx with different names, major depressive episode, bi-polar etc. They are considering changing from categorical dx's to a symptom approach. On the symptom approach the dx is made on the basis of the number and severity of symptoms that the subject exhibits. It is thought that this latter approach will avoid some of the problems of categorical dx (such as needing to have arbitrary exclusion criteria). It will also reflect the notion that mental illness is a matter of degree not kind and that many of the symptoms of mental illness are found in a lesser form in rest of the population. Major overhaul. It might be able to help with respect to better prognosis of illness too... Especially if the categories are too hetergenious at present. I think heterogenious is the word and it means that there is more variation of symptoms exhibited by patients within a dx category than between categories. So it is hard to track prognosis when research typically uses the dx category as a element instead of symptoms.Thats why people have recently taken to studying symptoms (eg delusions, hallucinations)
instead of dxIt is just hard when they won't help me.
Nobody from community mental health will work with me
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And this has been going on a while. So I have to start thinking that it must be something about me. Something about me because they work with me for a little bit but then move on :-( I don't know whats wrong with me. Why they won't work with me. Why they keep dx me with stuff so that nobody will want to work with me :-(
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