Posted by chujoe on May 12, 2010, at 13:13:10
In reply to Re: depression + mental exhaustion, posted by g_g_g_unit on May 12, 2010, at 9:20:29
Yes, I was going too fast and reversed what I intended to say. In any case, I am more and more convinced that discrete "diseases" don't really exist in the mental world -- at least not as the neat diagnostic boxes they are often presented as. What actually happens is that person X has this particular cluster of symptoms while person Y has this other, partly overlapping cluster. Nor are the causes simple: any particular cluster is the result of genetics, upbringing, experience, other medical problems, etc. I'm not sure what that means in your case except that you need to convince your pdoc that you have a particular assortment of symptoms and it doesn't really matter (to you) what he calls them as long as he is willing to help you deal with them.
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