{"id":9202,"date":"2016-02-26T00:05:16","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T06:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/?p=9202"},"modified":"2016-02-25T10:15:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T16:15:00","slug":"the-danger-of-self-diagnosis-for-a-fantastic-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/the-danger-of-self-diagnosis-for-a-fantastic-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"The Danger of Self-Diagnosis for a Fantastic Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"This<\/a>This week I’m preparing to speak about mental illness at our church on Sunday. No wonder this post, written four years ago this month while doing research for a book on PTSD in children, caught my eye. This post is as apropos now as it was then.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Danger of Self-Delusion<\/h4>\n

During January and February, my days were consumed with research for a new book proposal about post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in kids. Consequently, I learned just enough about several mental illnesses to endanger my own state of mind. All this new information sent me into a tizzy of worry and self-diagnosis, resulting in the following list:<\/p>\n

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  1. The great pleasure I find in the order and symmetry of the picture above is a sure sign of obsessive-compulsive disorder.<\/li>\n
  2. My penchant for list making could be another sign of obsessive-compulsive disorder, or it could be a coping mechanism I employ to hide early onset Alzheimer’s.<\/li>\n
  3. I probably have an eating disorder because one of the marks of an eating disorder is obsessively thinking about food. And I think of food at least three times a day, sometimes more.<\/li>\n
  4. Kids can be traumatized in many ways, and one of them must have happened to me during childhood so I must have PTSD.<\/li>\n
  5. Taking out all the garbage, cleaning the bathrooms, doing the laundry, and emptying the dishwasher before going on vacation points to a yet undiscovered, reverse housecleaning phobia which I hope they name “Philophobia” after me.<\/li>\n
  6. The desire to name a mental illness after myself pretty much proves I have a\u00a0 narcissistic complex.<\/li>\n
  7. All this worrying about having a mental illness points to an anxiety disorder, don’t you think?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Believe me, that list is only the tip of the mental illness iceberg. If everything I’ve self-diagnosed was on that list, you’d think I was crazy. But I’m not.<\/p>\n

    8.\u00a0 Time to add self-delusion to the list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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