What doctors need to understand is that witholding diagnosis information from a mentally ill patient is like witholding a cancer diagnosis. Completely, totally, thoroughly appalling. How are you supposed to fight a demon when you don't know its name? By witholding that information from you, the doctor is denying the patient the right to participate in their own recovery. Some people may not want to hear what they have, but they need to - no one wants to hear they have cancer, for instance, but it'd be akin to medical malpractice to deny that patient the right to seek the best treatment and opinions for them. Just because ours is a disease of the brain makes it no less of something to fight. I can understand where they might withold this information from a patient who is critically mentally ill and may not have the resources or capacity to understand their diagnosis at the moment, i.e. where it might cause them more harm than good. However, as a recovery starts to be made, the patient must know what they're up against. To fail to tell the patient is to hinder their active recovery.

some of it's magic
some of it's tragic
but i had a good life all the way......
~jimmy buffett