I feel like I need to pick which pdoc's dx I choose to embrace, If any of them... But at my support group I always feel uncomfortable during the check in bc ppl expect you to say why u r there and what dx u have and no matter what I say- atypical depression, bipolar 2, neither feels exactly like the right fit.

Which makes me start feeling like the whole putting ppl in little boxes based on some checklists written in a fancy dr manual that has questionable science behind it is utter bull shiit anyway. We are just lumping symptoms together and giving them disease names,
As if there is some clear neat precise line that fully distinguishes one mental disorder from another.
I accept that I struggle with depression and mood swings. And I say fuuck it to accepting some word that then becomes a scarlet B I am supposed to wear around my neck for life.

So I suppose- no. I don't accept my dx. I survive it, whatever the hell u want to call it. But I don't accept it and I sure as hell won't concede into letting it limit me from doing the stuff I want to do, or make me start pathologizing any extreme emotion or mood that I may be experiencing.

however fuucked up it may be, this is my life and overmedicalizing it all into symptoms and illness and stability somehow just doesn't sit right with me. But I am taking meds and I see a T and do all the crap I can to try to stay well. And I think that is enough. Because for me acceptance feels a lot like defeat. Idk. I am feeling a bit fired up and wordy so I apologize for my soap boxing here. I am sort of rambling. For those who find comfort in having a dx label, you are probably much more at peace than I.
Anyhow take care all.