Bi-polar disorder is greatly favoured by current psychiatric teams, at least in the West.
Whatever alternative diagnosis to positive disintegration is involved it almost certainly relies on a clinical definition of normality and considers any diversion from the norm (ordinary and unremarkable) in a less favourable perspective. Though these conditions often involve people with abilities that are more creative, artistic, imaginative and often positive self-affirming views of life.
Those with APD are more likely to exhibit imaginative appreciation of language, expression and emotions. All of which could count towards diagnosis of additional or stigmatic disorders as APD is little understood but frequently associated with psychiatric disorders such as ADHD, Aspergers, and Autism.
Is it so difficult to understand why people with this condition, and more highly refined depth and range of feeling, are susceptible to depression when they're viewed and described in such negative and encompassing clinical terms. Socially unaccepted or pigeon holed, confined by society's inability to appreciate, or unease.
Underpinning this disorder are a range of talents that are subconsciously engaged, developed and strategically employed. Those with APD are more susceptible to social rejection and likely to develop masking techniques to disguise their abilities to appreciate more than is said, feel more than the average person and express more articulately and specifically.
APD can manifest as problems determining the direction of sounds, difficulty perceiving differences between speech sounds and the sequencing of these sounds into meaningful words, confusing similar sounds such as "hat" with "bat", "there" with "where", etc. Fewer words may be perceived than were actually said, as there can be problems detecting the gaps between words, creating the sense that someone is speaking unfamiliar or nonsense words.
Those suffering from APD may have problems relating what has been said with its meaning, despite obvious recognition that a word has been said, as well as repetition of the word. Background noise, such as the sound of a radio, television or a noisy bar can make it difficult to impossible to understand speech, since spoken words may sound distorted either into irrelevant words or words that don't exist, depending on the severity of the auditory processing disorder. Using a telephone can be problematic for someone with auditory processing disorder, in comparison with someone with normal auditory processing, due to low quality audio, poor signal, intermittent sounds and the chopping of words.[8]
Many who have auditory processing disorder subconsciously develop visual coping strategies, such as lip reading, reading body language, and eye contact, to compensate for their auditory deficit, and these coping strategies are not available when using a telephone.
