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Sez

hi,

i have been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder but more recent possible Aspergers syndrome and it has to be ruled out by the Sabp I am very worried

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    Mental health problems are hard to diagnose because there aren't any laboratory tests and the doctor has to rely on the main "witness" i.e. the subject of the examination. If you have a communication disorder then it is easy to fail to communicate this to the doctor. This is a classic "Catch 22". If you could communicate better and persuade the doctor that you have the conditon then you don't have the condion. And vice versa.

    If you have communication problems then your answers to a doctors questions may also be incomplete, obscure and hard to decode.

    The classic autistic sufferer also may present with a cloud of conseqential issues of being withdrawn, depressed, anxious etc. It is just hard for a doctor to see through all of this foggy obscuring distraction and spot the underlying condition.

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    Mental health problems are hard to diagnose because there aren't any laboratory tests and the doctor has to rely on the main "witness" i.e. the subject of the examination. If you have a communication disorder then it is easy to fail to communicate this to the doctor. This is a classic "Catch 22". If you could communicate better and persuade the doctor that you have the conditon then you don't have the condion. And vice versa.

    If you have communication problems then your answers to a doctors questions may also be incomplete, obscure and hard to decode.

    The classic autistic sufferer also may present with a cloud of conseqential issues of being withdrawn, depressed, anxious etc. It is just hard for a doctor to see through all of this foggy obscuring distraction and spot the underlying condition.

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