Hello, I am new here so this may well be in the wrong category. I just finished 3-month group therapy at a psychiatric hospital and ended up being diagnosed with adjustment disorder. I know I'm not a doctor and the people who diagnosed me are but still, I feel this diagnosis doesn't cover most of my issues. I've read the criteria and it seems a bit like a label to slap on when you have an excessive reaction to a stressful event in life. In my case it would have to be the sole experience of going to school, lasting at least 6 years? It just seems like a slightly lazy diagnosis, especially since I had pretty severe symptoms of depression (suicidal thoughts, starving myself as a method of self-harm, not getting out of bed for days, sleeping 14+ hours and sobbing the rest of the time, all that jazz) and some sways in the manic direction, leading me to be on mood stabilizing medication. I had one doctor consider bipolar and another wrote down "several traits of BPD". I just feel really confused right now. I felt the therapy helped but I was really looking forward to basically getting a label that would give more answers than questions...