I've never thought of labels as being an excuse to feel bad or perpetuate negative emotions, but I totally agree with you now that you bring it up. Interesting, thank you.

I wonder if things would be easier if everyone was placed on a continuum. Like, everyone is on a clinically depressed continuum, for example. Some low, some high, some intermediate. Still, people high on the scale might suffer similar problems incurred in diagnoses, but maybe to a lesser degree since everyone is somewhere on the continuum.