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Keeping Up Aperients's avatar

As a GP registrar interacting with the those who have brushed up against the mental health system and accrued multiple diagnoses like wartime medals, with overlapping symptom profiles and a shopping list of drugs to ‘treat’ them, the case study of the girl in this essay is very familiar. I once had a patient say to me ‘I take the venlafaxine for my Borderline Personality, but I need something for my Depression’. I didn’t know where to start. My theory is that the language of mental health is so dependent on diagnosis that it has become an obsession for clinicians and then consequently becomes an obsession for patients. But it is wholly inadequate for meeting the needs of those people who need help the most.

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Jason Aull's avatar

I sent a link of this page to my sister in law. She has a son with severe “autism”.

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