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Old Feb 14, 2012, 12:54 PM
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Is getting diagnosed in such a minutious and precise manner useful for insurance purposes? Because otherwise, I'd like to suggest you don't "obsess" too much over labels. Because usually our disorders are caused by the same issues (and probably the way we've dealt with them when we weren't equipped to do so appropriately). For example, I'm an ACOA, which caused social anxiety, which caused depression. All of this caused an infinite (ok, let's say very long :P ) amount of other symptoms and dysfunctional behaviours (EDs, PDs, phobias, etc...) but if I were to count them and list them all... they would depict a quite frightening image.

What I'm trying to say is that many times when a person has mental health problems there's so many symptoms that can be interpreted in so many ways by so many different specialists... that how you're labeled and in how many ways they label you is important, of course, but don't let it frighten you or upset you too much.

You have issues. Address those issues. If you've been diagnosed with a few major things you're already aware of and a gazillion other things that don't really make a difference to you whether they're called X or Y... my advice woud be work on the major things. The marginal ones will likely resolve themselves as the healing process advances

I wish you luck
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