I sometimes feel addicted to labels, when it comes to myself. I have been told that a really good doctor treats symptoms, not illnesses, because if she gets too caught up on treating a specific illness, her experience or assumptions might cloud her judgement, leaving you with untreated symptoms. I'm not sure how I feel about that, but it sort of makes sense to me. I think people feel too often that once they "really know what's wrong with them" everything will be better, and unfortunately that's not always or often the case.
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