I was talking to a friend and he expressed a very different opinion than me. He suggested all mental health labels were destructive and instead, people should just be seen as being depressed at a certain moment, not diagnostically depressed.
To some point, I agree with him that diagnoses should be kept to the people who really need them. But I also think I felt so much better about myself after someone with a college degree said I had depression and I wasn't just broken and sad all the time.
Thoughts?
-Sam