Julie Stauffer

<<Having a knife thrust in your chest is on the same continuum as a papercut
but it is a similarly long continuum>>

I agree. But the basic cause of both points of that continuum is a foreign
object entering the body. So we could make a fictitious diagnosis of mild
foreign object penetration (paper cut) and severe foreign object penetration
(knife in chest).

I am not attempting to say that hysteria and DID are the same only that
perhaps the basic cause is the same, with one being much more severe than
the other.

Julie

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On Sat, 1 Dec 2001 21:14:41 -0600 "Julie Stauffer" <jnjstau@...>
writes:
> I am not attempting to say that hysteria and DID are the same only
> that
> perhaps the basic cause is the same, with one being much more severe
> than
> the other.
>
I guess you could say the underlying cause was trauma, for both... I
agree with that. But I still think we need different diagnoses for each
problem, just like we need different dignoses for paper cuts and knife
wounds..

Dar
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