My Philosophy of Mental Descriptions and Labels

Sometimes we can become so informed that we are unaware of the true meaning of ideas and generalities.

Disorders in a psychiatrists eyes are used to recall or stimulate a group of personality traits that all occur at the same time. The mind is far to complicated to simply be labeled bipolar are schizophrenic. It is much deeper than that. Can you display other symptoms outside of your label? YES! "In fact" it is very rare to NOT display other traits that are abnormal to your given label. The purpose of a label is not to say you are sick, crazy, or weird. It is to summarize your basic motives, to help understand, and to help resolve uprising conflicts. It is simply to UNDERSTAND ones thought process.
In more comprehensible terms, an american is an american as a brain is a brain.
Although Americans share relative similar ethnicity, many are influenced or projected by deeper ethnicity. (personality traits)

Mental example - A brain with a general identification of schizophrenia, may have a deeper influence of bipolar cognition. You may have layers of "disorders" (a term which I despise) so in a non-bias sense you have many layers of orders, such as a general order of schizophrenia ect.

Physical example - An American with a general identification of "black" may have deeper influences of European. It can branch even further into african, asian, latino ect, just as a mental order may branch off into other categories of orders

In controversy, but of little meaning to my purpose...
A square is a rectangle but a rectangle is not a square.
Avoidant Personality Disorder is a Social Phobia but a Social phobia is not AVPD.

I completely agree. I think that it is important to know our tendencies, so that we can better handle ourselves and our lives in accordance with what we want them to become, however I think diagnosing someone with an absolute when there could be overlapping factors (which there many times is) is very silly.

That being said, it's obvious that some people like myself have difficulty with mental healthy. We SHOULD be told what the issue is and given examples of how to address it. However trying to label us into a group with everyone else isn't really fair.

That's why I like this site. It has different forums yes, but members from all forums can come together and communicate. This is the way I feel things should be with psychology as well.

Similar to why I am interested in a field called comparative psychology. I don't personally believe in evolution, however I do feel that the way humans and animals interact with stimuli or sociologically with each other mirror behavior patterns.

It helps me to feel more comfortable in my own skin, as an individual.

"In controversy, but of little meaning to my purpose...
A square is a rectangle but a rectangle is not a square.
Avoidant Personality Disorder is a Social Phobia but a Social phobia is not AVPD."

You hit the nail on the head.

You know I really think you would be interested in researching "Neuroplactisity" It can teach you all about the changes in the brain, in fact the brain responds to EVERY bit of stimulus it has. It is truly amazing, it sounds like you'd be interested.

OH and PS I love your quote! lololol

I never knew I was "normal" and coming to this website I was drawn to the AvPD forum. The diagnoses used as labels is quite prevalent on here. I was diagnosed only 2 days ago but got slapped several more syndromes listed as existing comorbidly or whatever.
I thought my brain would explode. AvPD, Social Phobia, with BPD and PPD traits. I think I feel worse after the diagnoses then before I even went in there. Learning things such as this can do damage to an already overly analytical mind. I have a STRONG feeling I want to drop therapy and forget the diagnoses. I kind of just wanted to be treated for the social anxiety moreso and the awkwardness & severe low self esteem. This psych drug a lot more skeletons out of my closet. Now I don't really know what to do. I think I'll feel out the therapy, but I'm not so sure about this whole business.

-- Thu Jul 05, 2012 1:30 am --

I was thinking the AvPD and Social Phobia and PPD were one in the same, now I see that they are not. I'm not going to pick this $#%^ apart, it's just going to drive me crazy. I might even take a break from this website for awhile until after I feel my way through this therapy.