I'm glad I have a diagnosis. It was more of a validation, feeling understood, since I felt the diagnosis does match what I experience.

My therapy did not change, my therapist is thankfully able to provide the treatment I need and has not changed at all due to the diagnosis. If anything, I feel he can help me better. I think it's not excusing life events, but rather caused by life events.

I know it can be hard in the health care system as well as society in general if there's a mental health label attached. For example, I was recently not able to upgrade to a better insurance plan due to my diagnosis (BPD) or rather due to the fact that I'm still in therapy. I think that's ridiculous, but it's not the fault of the illness or diagnosis, it's the system that doesn't assess these things more logically.

I'm glad that there's a word for what I experience, a way to compare my own experience to that of others and to relate to people. It's like if you have a bad cough, of course it sucks to have the cough, but knowing what causes the cough helps, even if it's a bad illness, that is still better than not even knowing what it is, having no treatment available to try and so on.