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Having second thoughts about new diagnosis

Posted by firemonkey on December 11, 2012, at 20:32:44

Accept i'm prone to chronic paranoia but, having looked at them ,don't see myself as fulfilling the criteria for ICD/paranoid PD which is the diagnostic system my shrink uses.

It is characterized by at least three of the following:

excessive sensitivity to setbacks and rebuffs;

Am sensitive to this

tendency to bear grudges persistently, i.e. refusal to forgive insults and injuries or slights;

Only if persistently attacked/bullied/insulted but have no problems getting over occasional disagreements that can happen between people.

suspiciousness and a pervasive tendency to distort experience by misconstruing the neutral or friendly actions of others as hostile or contemptuous;

suspiciousness -ok but definitely don't distort neutral and friendly actions on a regular basis.

a combative and tenacious sense of personal rights out of keeping with the actual situation;

Definitely not true

recurrent suspicions, without justification, regarding sexual fidelity of spouse or sexual partner;

completely untrue

tendency to experience excessive self-importance, manifest in a persistent self-referential attitude;

Not true especially with regard to self importance.

preoccupation with unsubstantiated "conspiratorial" explanations of events both immediate to the patient and in the world at large.

Not sure about this one as don't think reach level of preoccupation and my main current worry ie the government welfare policy is shared by many non paranoid individuals.

Also there is much talk of jealousy and lack of sense of humour in articles on paranoid PD neither of which accurately describe me.

At the end of the day especially with PDs an attached label is highly dependent on the subjective(potentially biased) opinion of the assessor .

paranoid traits- certainly. paranoid PD - very doubtful.

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