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The painful consequences of personality disorder diagnosis | Letters

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The emotionally unstable personality disorder diagnosis that harmed Scout can be easily understood as a label given to survivors of abuse.

More than 90% of people with this diagnosis who are hospitalised have abusive experiences in their past.

Last year more than 1,200 clinicians wrote to the Royal College of Psychiatrists to call for this diagnosis not to be used with children.

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