it's tough freewill... the techno-terms and clinical babbledee-doo... they generally use it with each other and not us so much.. i don't like it either. Freaks me out too. but sugar.. remember that stuff is like shop talk... and for you it's... well... YOU. You aren't made up of shop talk, you're a person and it can feel like a judgement or put down.

i'm sorry this hurt you so... and i understand why it may have.. i shut down for two whole days the first time my pdoc said i was "unstable."

maybe management could be seen as establishing a baseline or foundation from which you can acheive improvement later. Maybe right now improvement isn't the appropriate goal.. i don't know that, just suggesting.

and one other thing.. i think the idea of case management is used more when there are two or more professionals involved in your care or case (see how one can interchange case with care?). Maybe you can ask that he/she say something else? like coordination of care? action plan?

remember sugar... this is about YOU.. so this is YOUR case, YOUR job to manage YOU...