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Social Sciences - Medical: Health Care / A group residential centre for individuals with intellectual disabilities | | French term or phrase: aux limites | This is a description of a proposal for a "centre de résidences en groupes" providing services to individuals with intellectual disabilities.
"Il s'agit de personnes avec une variété de diagnostic [sic] ***aux limites des syndromes cliniques*** (c.-à-d., la psychose, le trouble bipolaire, le trouble dépressif majeur, le trouble obsessionel compulsif, etc.).
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| | bordering on | Explanation:
Seems to me the meaning is somewhat different from "borderline".
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Note added at 1 day10 hrs (2009-10-22 08:53:37 GMT)
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I can't say I see where the problem lies when it comes to "phrasing it", but for those who appear to have difficulty, how about:
The people concerned have a type of diagnosed condition bordering on clinical syndromes (i.e. [or should that really be "e.g."?] psychosis, bipolar disorder, major depressive disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, etc.).
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