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Rob Morley wrote: > On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 12:43:28 -0800 > "burtthebike"  wrote: > >> Treatment would probably be available on the NHS. >> > Actually personality disorders can be very hard to treat[1], and the > specialist treatments often aren't available, so sufferers tend to get > consigned to the scrapheap. Many sufferers won't accept that there's > anything wrong with them anyway (it's always somebody else's fault) so > why waste resources on not really fixing ungrateful annoying people? > More importantly, resources targetted at younger people are even LESS likely to help, since they are explicitly forbidden from introducing a topic until/unless the young person brings it up themselves - if the young person doesn't feel they have a problem and so don't mention one, the sessions turn into general chats. I know of a child who's been attending sessions for over two years without a single discussion on disorders, and another who's been going for 18 months to play Ludo. > > [1] They're more like a developmental disorder than a mental illness, > so although some cases respond to medication and therapy it's really a > case of learning to live with it rather than getting cured. >