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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, you always have the option of setting boundaries with people in your life.  That looks like this "Miranda, I will not answer the phone anymore when you call me after 9 pm obsessing about your health crises, and I will only listen for 15 minutes when you discuss whether the neighbors are trying to kill you.  Please be on notice of these rules."

However, telling people they are psychotic/mentally ill/paranoid/schizo/borderline/green-peppered is not setting boundaries.  It is simply telling people off and blasting them.  You are not the Diagnoser of Maladies and having a diagnosis does not make anyone's life easier.  In fact, it can make a mentally ill person even more anxious to hear someone angrily text/scream that they are considered mentally ill.

My mother is very seriously mentally ill and my brother recently shrieked at her "You're psychotic!  You're psychotic!  Leave me alone!"  Now she ruminates constantly on his "diagnosis" of her as psychotic, leaving me long phone messages with 59 reasons why she's not psychotic.  How helpful was this diagnosis to her (and the rest of us), OP?[/quote]

Funny thing is, my texting her is the boundary I've set. I limit interaction with her and have blocked her on a few occasions.

I really do appreciate the constructive feedback from some of you, it's quite helpful. Quickly scrolling past the bs comments and not reading.[/quote]

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