The painful consequences of personality disorder diagnosis | Letters
This diagnosis is a label given to survivors of abuse and should not be used with children, writes Keir Harding. Plus a parent writes of how medical professionals abandoned their son
Scout Tzofiya Bolton painfully illustrates the neglect and brutality that can arise once mental health difficulties are understood as a “disordered personality” (Nobody could help me with my psychosis. Then I was sent to jail for holding up a shop with a toy gun, 18 January).
The emotionally unstable personality disorder diagnosis that harmed Scout can be easily understood as a label given to survivors of abuse, with more than 90% of people with this diagnosis who are hospitalised having abusive experiences in their past.
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This diagnosis is a label given to survivors of abuse and should not be used with children, writes Keir Harding. Plus a parent writes of how medical professionals abandoned their son
Scout Tzofiya Bolton painfully illustrates the neglect and brutality that can arise once mental health difficulties are understood as a “disordered personality” (Nobody could help me with my psychosis. Then I was sent to jail for holding up a shop with a toy gun, 18 January).
The emotionally unstable personality disorder diagnosis that harmed Scout can be easily understood as a label given to survivors of abuse, with more than 90% of people with this diagnosis who are hospitalised having abusive experiences in their past.
Continue reading...
By Guardian Staff
The painful consequences of personality disorder diagnosis | Letters to Continue reading...
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