Comments by "Michael Deierhoi" (@michaeldeierhoi4096) on "Dr. Tracey Marks" channel.

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  2.  @prometheanevent  I appreciated your comment and I have a few observations to offer. One is that Aspergers was always part of the Autism Spectrum, but the DSM in its latest edition #5 has dropped the Aspergers label so now it is places diagnosed individuals on the autism spectrum. Autism is also much, much more the just shyness! Autism can manifest as profoundly disabled and nonverbal to a fairly high functioning person with a blunted affect. These higher functioning people often lack social skills for their age. As far as labeling someone with a mental diagnosis it is for most people a necessary step toward recovery. When I was diagnosed with BPD it was more a revelation then anything else and in no way a negative. For the first time I had a label for about 8 disparate symptoms and was often misdiagnosed in the past. And being misdiagnosed I have gotten medication that didn't help and counseling that was ineffective. It is also true that many people are misdiagnosed or over diagnosed. Like any other field of medicine misdiagnosis happens sometimes on a minor level and sometimes at a catastrophic point for some people. Human beings are after all flawed in nature and even the best diagnosticians can make mistakes. I have almost 20 years experience in physical and mental health treatment so I am speaking from direct experience. The problem with a person diagnosed with a mental illness will face will arise from the symptoms of the disorder itself which I observed in myself and others as a practitioner. But issues like shyness and much worse like poor self image and even suicidal behavior are EXASERBATED by stigma. People perceived as having a mental illness are often treated with disrespect and abuse or taken advantage of in other ways. In other words it is myth that label will have a negative effect on a person. And lastly there is no practical equivalence in comparing mental illness in people with disruptive behavior in dogs for obvious reasons.
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