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Originally Posted by ck2d
Are you serious?
If your mother fell down and bruised her knee, looked it up on WebMD and it said it could be cancer, so she moved into a hospital for the rest of her life, would you be okay with that?
I'm not nitpicking over a diagnosis. A "self-diagnosis" isn't a diagnosis at all, after all.
There is a difference between support and enabling.
All you're doing is giving yourself an excuse to stay miserable. I cannot imagine why anyone would want to do that. If you think you can explain it, go ahead and try.
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All of you make good points. I agree that some of us find comfort in having a diagnosis, now we have a starting point for treatment/recovery. However, self-labeling can be a nasty trap that we get stuck in, as ck2d pointed out. I usually keep this opinion to myself because some people get a little bit defensive when you try to mess with their "diagnosis"!
But what the heck, we're all adults here, we can share different experiences and beliefs and still remain civil?
