I haven't read up on the labeling theory, but I'm pretty sure I fell victim to whatever it is when I was freshly dxd bipolar.


Suddenly everything was bipolar, I was mood tracking and medicating and watching myself through a microscope... every mood fluctuation, every experience was bipolar. I over identified in a MASSIVE way!


That soon became exhausting and terribly discouraging, so I worked on changing my perception as my ill perception had me feeling ill all the damn time...Once I figured out that I was still the me before the pdocs got involved, and reverted to my former "ignorant" way of viewing myself i.e "wired differently", things became much calmer in my head.


Thinking of myself as being wired differently doesn't mean I'm in denial though, I don't doubt my dxs for a moment, its just a healthier way of perceiving myself.


I must add that once I stopped paying attention to every single nuance, I didn't feel as extremely symptomatic as before.


Lucky for me tho, my BPD dx came later, so I made sure not to make the same mistake twice. Now I'm focused on discovering and acquiring skills that will hopefully in time become second nature.


And for me, second nature is good enough.