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<blockquote data-quote="Sara PA" data-source="post: 171542" data-attributes="member: 1498"><p>My two cents is that if you take your child to a therapist who specializes in Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) there's a real good chance you're going to get a diagnosis of Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD). ALL of these disorders are strictly subjective because there is no way to objectively diagnose. And virtually all the DSM disorders are nothing more than a collection of behaviors, all of which can be found in more than one disorder. Add to that the simple fact that so much that has been seen as learned behavior is now being shown to be neurobiological -- a functioning of the brain rather than psychological. Keep in mind that in my first psychology class I was taught that autism was caused by cold, uncaring mothers and homosexuality was caused by controlling mothers. (It was <em>always</em> the mothers.)</p><p></p><p>It's a dirty little secret that therapist/psychiatrist have their favorite diagnoses which are over represented in their practice. Studies have been done on this but I'm not going to dig any up. If you take a person reporting or exhibiting certain behaviors to a number of doctors/therapist, you will get a variety of diagnoses. Many doctors seem to have their "thing" which they see in many of their patients. </p><p></p><p>I have two thoughts on this. One -- get another opinion. IIRC, this is the only therapist the child has seen who has made this diagnosis or even suggested it. Why accept it? And two -- is your fiance willing to so quickly accept the advice to break it off with you because he's overwhelmed and can't deal with the idea of combining families at this point?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sara PA, post: 171542, member: 1498"] My two cents is that if you take your child to a therapist who specializes in Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) there's a real good chance you're going to get a diagnosis of Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD). ALL of these disorders are strictly subjective because there is no way to objectively diagnose. And virtually all the DSM disorders are nothing more than a collection of behaviors, all of which can be found in more than one disorder. Add to that the simple fact that so much that has been seen as learned behavior is now being shown to be neurobiological -- a functioning of the brain rather than psychological. Keep in mind that in my first psychology class I was taught that autism was caused by cold, uncaring mothers and homosexuality was caused by controlling mothers. (It was [I]always[/I] the mothers.) It's a dirty little secret that therapist/psychiatrist have their favorite diagnoses which are over represented in their practice. Studies have been done on this but I'm not going to dig any up. If you take a person reporting or exhibiting certain behaviors to a number of doctors/therapist, you will get a variety of diagnoses. Many doctors seem to have their "thing" which they see in many of their patients. I have two thoughts on this. One -- get another opinion. IIRC, this is the only therapist the child has seen who has made this diagnosis or even suggested it. Why accept it? And two -- is your fiance willing to so quickly accept the advice to break it off with you because he's overwhelmed and can't deal with the idea of combining families at this point? [/QUOTE]
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