Nov 09, 2014 at 12:14 PM
The good thing...people are starting to take notice of mental health struggles and being open about it - hopefully getting understanding and help to make life better.
The bad thing - being labeled with anything. It's one thing to talk about symptoms/behavior (and not everyone has the same symptoms) - but you are not the label. Individuals are being labeled way too much - and sometime the professional is wrong!
It's about how you learn to overcome your symptoms or how to make life more manageable. It can be an explaination for your behavior instead of an excuse - learning to change is the most important thing.
And yet - some will be open about discussing their "label" because they can identify with other's struggles - and want to be understanding or understood.
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“A person is also mentally weak by the quantity of time he spends to sneak peek into others lives to devalue and degrade the quality of his own life.” Anuj Somany
“Psychotherapy works by going deep into the brain and its neurons and changing their structure by turning on the right genes. The talking cure works by "talking to neurons," and that an effective psychotherapist or psychoanalyst is a "microsurgeon of the mind" who helps patients make needed alterations in neuronal networks.” Norman Doidge
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