Strikeforce: Diaz vs. Daley Post-Fight Interviews - Nick Diaz

who practices psychotherapy in a public mental health clinic in Manhattan. There are not “thousands” of personality disorders, there are 11 (though research is turning our knowledge of them on its ear, and this will be reflected in the next DSM). And while there are overlapping symptomologies, there are also strict adherences that must be followed in ruling out certain symptoms as parts of other diagnoses. If someone who does what I do can’t categorize behaviors like Diaz’ into the established criteria that guides treatment, then they’d have to pick a new field. My diagnosis of Diaz has no implication- it’s just my opinion on an internet forum, but believe it or not, Antisocial PD isn’t all that rare within the populations that I serve, and we have enough evidence of Diaz’ behavior and upbringing to make an educated guess. Diaz isn’t crazy- he’s not mentally ill, but if you think that his behavior is normative, I’m glad I don’t know you in real life.

But, human beings are complex creatures and there’s certainly a TON of gray area and our picture of mental health will be totally different in 30 years, just as today is totally different than 30 years ago. One thing that’s true and always will be is that you can’t generalize when dealing with the human condition- there’s no “one-size fits all” approaches or treatments, even within a single disorders diagnostic criteria, that’s why keeping an open mind and allowing yourself to accept new ideas is really important.

Regarding your sweeping generalization about people in my field, that’s just silly as there is such variance between corners of the field and those who choose to practice within them. I’ve had colleagues that have been closed minded, Freudian-indoctrinated conservatives and new-agey, wishy washy Transpersonal Psychology or Gestalt minded hippy types there’s no one statement that you could make about us all. I’m not treating Nick Diaz, so my opinion above means nothing in the real world- but like I said, he fits that diagnosis to a T.

Most fighters will want more money regardless. The debate on what fighters deserve before being ‘overpaid’ will never end. What I will say is we’ve yet to see the effects on fighters who have had multiple blows to their head throughout their careers and whether what they’ve earned after tax and expenses will be enough for round the clock medical care for the rest of their lives if it ever comes to that. That level of care doesn’t come cheaply and why if a union or players association can’t be formed or organised, a charitable trust or Fighters Fund should at the least be formed with concessions from the top promoters and entities turning a major profit.

Agree that it seems that could be the case but that’s hard to diagnose out of the handful of interviews we see with him.

I’ll be interested to see what he says.

And while I am a giant Semtex homer, I also really like the Diaz bros, and was incredibly impressed with his performance. Paul had given Nick his best stuff, and Nick had the upper hand. I don’t think it would have made it out of the second. But I do think that stoppage was early.

but he looked pretty pissed about it on the chair. I care because that fight was Paul’s best shot at continuing to fight for U.S.-based promotions, and I like watching him. Frankly, he was probably going to lose round 2, given where he was and Nick’s work rate, but I still hated the stoppage. I think the Frankie Edgar comparison is really apt. What if he’d been stopped against Maynard in their last fight? We’d have been out an amazing contest.

I don’t know if that was championship bias or what, but he didn’t ref the fight evenly.

Only hes in it cuz- ITSA RAININ MEN!!!!

Agreed.