but you're also arguing the semantics between actual and percieved, when i've stated explicitly, it's field specific.

we operate out of perception 90% of the time because our clients are fucking nuts.

they want to cut their dicks off. lmao

That must be heavy to deal with @Nip Crippler

Here fuck off you melt @AdmiralBumFluff

right but your field is retarded and has ruined a word that still has usage in real medical practices

is my whole fucking point

Holy fuck

@Tea tbh, they're some of the easiest to work with. it's the antisocials and the borderlines that get to me.

Psych.........

@Nip Crippler Does it take a toll mentally sometimes?

It's an important distinction though because one term pathologises the mental state whereas the other pathologises the anatomy

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

That's what I always thought. I didn't get the point this whole time.

which is why i make the distinctions.

I wont disagree with that, but you need a third word

A third word for what.

'Tranny'

in psychology the conditions are usually named in the way it has an effect on the sufferer, BDD for example "sufferer feels like their body is the wrong shape", for example in the subtype of muscle dysmorphia the sufferer feels that their muscles are too small so they exercise 24/7

and destroying an existing word by misusing it hurts it

i would love a third word. but, that's not up to us. lol

@Tea you either get used to it, or you switch fields. tbf i'm dead inside already so i compartmentalize very well. did you know therapists have to also see therapists?

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also, this kinda stuff is why dyphorias and dysmorphias may get removed from DMS 6

my whole problem is that BDD describes a condition that should be named body dysphoria disorder, or a new third 'dys' word, and they kept using dysmorphia in a way that was confusing as fuck to me from the definition they'd inferred from the disorder

sperged the fuck out, I'm sorry

Wtf I don’t wanna be a therapist anymore

dysphoria is legit

but its not an adequate descriptor of the condition

@Nip Crippler Fair enough man, hats off to you man.

it is convoluted. but that's also why you need at the minimum a masters to really even get your toes into the water.

here in washington you can't even get certified to practice without a masters.

I wanna go for a PhD

doctorate in order to open a private practice.

Morning

Or maybe an MD at least

sure, but using dysmorphia is doubly inadequate further on down the road (ie. right now) because the word dysmorphia has lost definition standalone from the condition

Morning gay boy

I dunno

like BDD covers a whole range of shit that mostly involves sizes/shapes etc. of the body

Hey whisk