We can agree to disagree. I think labels make people feel better, unique or special even, and society gets to feel that outliers are explainable. This is why every mass shooter is automatically a mentally ill loner rather than a depraved monster empowered by unchecked privileged and entitlement who used free will to kill. Western culture doesn't like not being able to explain things.

Pathology is a cozy blanket for our society. I'm more interested in accountability and solutions. My best therapist was of the same mind. She refused to allow me to traffic in pathology and refused to use labels. I'm glad she's now a professor of psychology and sharing her wisdom with future therapists; she really is a pioneer. I see now what she meant about where society was headed with overmedicating and overdiagnosing. It seems labels haven't just been accepted,many now feel they are their label. Whatever you are diagnosed with, you're so much more than that. Labels are helpful but you shouldn't need a diagnosis to feel special.