Answer:
Psychological diagnoses can lead to prejudice when limiting a person to his disorder, as if that person could not have a normal life with the proper treatment.
In extreme cases, this diagnosis can lead to discrimination, when it promotes negative characteristics associated with the disorder, when in fact, it should combat the promotion of these characteristics.
When the diagnosis is not made by a suitable professional and when it is based on another patient's mental disorder, it can present negative biases.
Explanation:
As we know people with some mental disorders can suffer a lot of prejudice in society and even discrimination, by those who do not know the disorder as they should.
For this reason, the diagnosis of the disease is as important as the treatment, because the diagnosis can combat false information and prepare the patient with what they can really expect from the disease.
However, some diagnoses can encourage prejudice and discrimination. This happens when the diagnosis limits the patient to his illness and does not show that with the correct treatment it is possible to have a normal and quality life. In addition, the diagnosis can perpetuate negative characteristics about the disease, without, again, stating that these characteristics can be diminished with the correct treatment.
This type of diagnosis is common when issued by people who are not the appropriate professionals to issue it. It can also occur when a person's diagnosis is made based on someone else's illness.
