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How to Deal with Your Mental Health Diagnosis

Why the decision to seek a diagnosis feels scary, and how a diagnosis can benefit you
Dealing with mental health diagnosis

I once received an angry phone call from someone whose doctor had remarked on her 4-year old's energetic behavior, with the comment, "Next year we will be talking about ADD." She was livid at the flippancy with which the doctor diagnosed her child, after only 3 minutes of being in his office for an unrelated issue.

The point of this story is to highlight both the quickness to which people (in this case a doctor) make judgments about human behavior and the reactions we can have when someone implies there may be


Posted: 11 February 2019
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Temi Coker, MSC, MA, Dip.Cons

Temi is a BACP accredited psychotherapist, counsellor and clinical supervisor.

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