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In my research that kind of depression is called unspecified depression or depressive disorder nos. If you get too caught up in labels it will consume you eventually. My doctor has accepted that there is no textbook answer to my depression. I have "Philip Depression" and not MDD or Dysthymia simply. It's more complex than that, and somewhere I'm glad. Maybe they should write something in the DSM about me and my case. New category? (That was a bad joke)

Find ways to recover without labels. Skip them all together if you can. Life and the kind people here have taught me that. Going from OCD and clinical depression to schizophrenia, to bipolar disorder to schizoaffective disorder to schizophrenia again and back to depression should have been evidence enough that labels are a waste of time.

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I have INSANE MAX DISORDER!! LOL, but really, I understand what some doctors/psychiatrists and psychologists do with LABELS sometimes. I also realize how incredibly stigmatizing mental health disorders are in the general public. I think that part of what you're trying to say is that labels are useless---I agree. I also think that you are saying that everyone manifests their disorders in different ways--I agree too. But, I'd have to say that certain treatments work better for one disorder vs. another, so accurate diagnosis is the first step. Sometimes if given the wrong diagnosis, you have the wrong treatment, which can be harmful even. Labels should never be used to identify a person. I am not "THE PANIC DISORDER PATIENT IN ROOM 10" or whatever. I'm a normal human being~~~because ALL OF US, every human on earth, is NORMAL.

I sorta explained this in another post in this thread, but I find that the more accurate the diagnosis, the more accurate the treatment.