A mental health diagnosis is just a label

A mental health diagnosis is just a label, and they keep changing. The labels they stuck on people 30 years ago are different now, and they’ll probably be different again 30 years from now. I don’t like them, and I try not to use them myself. I find them unhelpful and sometimes offensive. Labelling someone just enables people to delude themselves that they understand what a person is going through.

Psychiatrists collect the rent

 

 

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