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Originally Posted by maxie154
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.
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It is interesting. But I think they are always say that everyone suffers from so and so (like depression, or social anxiety) from time to time, but these things don't interfere with their everyday life ... etc. I am not sure how placing everyone on a continuum would help people from stigmatization. I think the word "mental illness" in itself is harmful, because it implies craziness, even though psychologists and psychiatrists say otherwise.