Both, I think.

I think the way we have used labels and the way the DSM has evolved over time has only been getting worse...

Youth, especially, seem to take on their dx as an identity. I have known many like that...

That the system is so obsessed with diagnosis also means that when someone doesnt fit a label (like me) they are often left out in the cold...

Some criticism of western psychiatry suggests that people become the labels merely because the labels exist... I think there is some evidence for this.

But we use labels every day in all sorts of situations. They have uses.