"To say it's definitely not something is a diagnosis."
No, it's not. Like I don't think you have schizophrenia, but that's not my diagnosis of you.
"Once again, I am not giving a diagnosis and have not claimed to. Yes, it's an opinion."
Yes, it's an opinion about what a diagnosis is, but without being a diagnosis, which doesn't make any sense. Diagnosing schizophrenia is a formal practice in the mental health industry, it's not a matter for opinion. The way diagnoses are thrown around as a form of social commentary is, aside from being expressly unethical if its being done by a mental health practitioner, one of the inaccurate and stigmatizing treatments of mental health by our culture at large.
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Date: 13/1/11 01:41 (UTC)No, it's not. Like I don't think you have schizophrenia, but that's not my diagnosis of you.
"Once again, I am not giving a diagnosis and have not claimed to. Yes, it's an opinion."
Yes, it's an opinion about what a diagnosis is, but without being a diagnosis, which doesn't make any sense. Diagnosing schizophrenia is a formal practice in the mental health industry, it's not a matter for opinion. The way diagnoses are thrown around as a form of social commentary is, aside from being expressly unethical if its being done by a mental health practitioner, one of the inaccurate and stigmatizing treatments of mental health by our culture at large.