What's your psychiatric diagnosis?

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  • Grunewald
    2 years ago | pl

    I've had 'Anxiety' put on a sick note, but I've had enough symptoms of borderline personality disorder confirmed by my therapist to make me clinically diagnosable, when I pressed her to admit it. She didn't want to encourage me to go for a formal diagnosis though, because she didn't want to slap that label on me. In the profession it is sadly shorthand for 'difficult client'.

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      2 years ago | pl

      Was that sick note for employer or school/uni?

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      • Grunewald
        2 years ago | pl

        Employer. But in my country the employer isn't allowed to see the reason you're sick. It's not on their copy of the sick note. You do have to see an independent 'work doctor' at the start of your contract and at some other points though, who will deem you fit or unfit to work. Whether you're fit or unfit to work is all the employer is entitled to know - in theory. In reality people get curious and want to know why they're having to cover your work, and 'work doctors' just blithely sign the 'fit to work' coupon the moment you walk through the door, without asking any questions.

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        • Anonymous Post Author
          2 years ago | pl

          Right. Good that your country has taken care of ppl's privacy. May I know what country is that, seems a good place if I make my mind to relocate abroad..

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