Comments on: Are personality disorders really that common? http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/12/are-personality-disorders-really-that.html Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:27:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/12/are-personality-disorders-really-that.html#comment-88476 Anonymous Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:48:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/12/are-personality-disorders-really-that-common.html#comment-88476 Not everyone who meets DSM-IV criteria for something necessarily needs treatment or constitutes a disorder in a clinically important way. If a person learns to work around it to function in a way that is livable for them and they don't want to do anything to change it, then, whatever the rest of us think if their life, that is not a clinical issue.<br/><br/>Some "disorders" that are clinicially significant in one person constitute a mere "quirk" in another--at the same objective symptom level. Not everyone who meets DSM-IV criteria for something necessarily needs treatment or constitutes a disorder in a clinically important way. If a person learns to work around it to function in a way that is livable for them and they don’t want to do anything to change it, then, whatever the rest of us think if their life, that is not a clinical issue.

Some “disorders” that are clinicially significant in one person constitute a mere “quirk” in another–at the same objective symptom level.

]]> By: Novalishttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/12/are-personality-disorders-really-that.html#comment-88471 Novalis Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:18:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/12/are-personality-disorders-really-that-common.html#comment-88471 This study has provoked a lot of comment. Another psychiatrist's reaction (mine) is the current post at Ars Psychiatrica. This study has provoked a lot of comment. Another psychiatrist’s reaction (mine) is the current post at Ars Psychiatrica.

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