KLear Medical Solutions

Stigma in the health professions is as much of a problem as it is everywhere else. People talk about the way someone’s acting as being “behavioral,” as like a standalone term. And it means nothing, all behavior’s behavioral, it’s ridiculous. You may as well say breathing is respiratory, you know. You can’t differentiate. But it’s become this term and what we mean is, or what people mean who use it is, this person’s acting out, they’re doing this on purpose.

We, as a profession, as a culture, often view psychosis with a bit more sympathy, because we know that people who are psychotic have effectively lost touch with reality. But at the other end you have people who perhaps have a personality disorder diagnosis. And there’s a tendency to write off the way they’re behaving because they can “help it.