I'm not big into diagnoses... It's a label, really. I believe more in looking at things in terms of a framework-- if the symptoms are there, then of course they exist, and you treat them. I used to obsess over my diagnosis.... I thought it was a definition of myself of some sort... Then I began to look at my symptoms in the way of a framework and characteristics. There is so much overlap in mental health disorders if you end up focusing in so much on your 'diagnosis' you could end up overlooking some pretty important stuff. I used to be obsessed with buying books about borderline personality d/o. I would research it like crazy on the internet, trying to get all of the information I could. But it was so.... surface, I guess. Now I study it through psychoanalysis, looking at my traits through different frameworks.

I can understand why you would want to rant. But rather than emphasizing the label to your pdoc, emphasize your symptoms... and make sure he is doing is best to get them taken care of.