Labels tend to be just a means to a end-- a way to navegate you towards the most appropriate medications or therapies to help. I fall in and out of favor with then, to be honest. There are times I feel like they are an integral part of understanding yourself, combating symptoms, and not feeling alone - other times when you realize mental health, like all issues, may have common threads it's on a serious level individualistic and manifests in ways based on genetics, upbringing, environment, family dynamics, social supports etc. No label will ever 100% fit anyone unless extreme vague and generalistic. I doubt I've ever been understood well enough to think an diagnosis really reflects the things I think, feel, see, or do.... but I do accept and subscribe to the idea that even if we are just working with a facet of mental health at a time... it's better than nothing.
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