i love being self aware of my personality disorder so i can literally never tell if im surrounded by toxic people or if im just over sensitive and dramatic

It’s not about you. It’s about the fad going around of people diagnosing themselves with everything under the sun. My doubt isn’t something to be taken personally, it’s a logical autoreaction to having too much communication with people claiming to have diagnoses they never got assessed for. My stance -and the mental health community’s- is if it’s not diagnosed by a professional, it’s not valid because symptoms of anything can be other things. Yours was diagnosed by someone who went to school to assess people for 4 or more years, therefore is valid. You should be upset at the internet communities who validate and encourage self-diagnoses, as that is what causes this kind of doubt. I’m sorry I doubted you. I doubt everyones complex diagnoses unless they say it was professionally diagnosed.

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