I was thinking about this other day, how the MH system actually encourages a view of yourself that is "disordered" or "other" and then you start self stigmatizing which just compounds the anxiety and low self esteem. I do have emotional issues, anxiety, low self-esteem, and PTSD and this has definitely caused alot of problems in my life but I hate thinking of myself as mentally ill or that I don't think the way other so called "normal" people do , what's normal supposed to be anyway? But if you choose to reject the mental illness label then you can be diagnosed with "Anosognosia" which is a mental illness that causes people to be in denial of their mental illness.

I wish we could just except were all human beings struggling through our own problems, no one has a perfect life and some people are just better at hiding their issues than others. I used to wonder what my therapists issues were, I was being funny one day and asked her how do I know you don't go home, eat your boogers and finger paint with your poop? She looks at like me "what?"