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Do you believe personality disorders are legitimate?

Asked by smack (1217points) November 17th, 2009

specifically concerning borderline and histrionic personality disorders, definitions which can be found here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borderline_personality_disorder
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histrionic_personality_disorder

some believe personality disorders are just excuses for people who continue to use juvenile, maladaptive behaviors from their adolesence into their adulthood. do you think critics have a right to put these disorders under fire? or do you think these disorders are legitimate? if so, should people with these disorders be treated with the same sort of sensitivity that those with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia are treated with?

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