Poor Redbull! All this moralising you're putting up with to get your question answered!
This is an anonymous forum at a couple of levels. It gives members the opportunity to post here on delicate medical issues. If they choose to do that as themselves, their best friend, their cousin Vinny..whats the difference? It was clinical opinion and others experience he/she was requesting.
Just the same, Flying Dutch raises some interesting and legitimate points, I'd have liked to see them discussed in a seperate thread as broader issues, but leave it up to you.
Whirlybird. Drug users are often given primary and concurrent diagnosis of Personality Disorder. That depends on meeting a number of criteria. Diagnosis and Prognosis is determined on clinical opinion and is usually based on the DSM IV, the bible for clinical psychologists and psychiatrists. A layperson can question the relevance or validity by all means however, that's how it stands at the moment. .
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