i wonder about the psychological role of diagnosis
i've heard this pattern before. diagnosis gives you…absolution?
you're still the SAME EXACT person; but now there's a label in the DSM for the kind of person you are, so you no longer hate yourself
a curious phenomenon
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in my case i refuse to get diagnosed bc i hate the mental health establishment where i'm from, but also yea getting a sense of the pattern of a thing allows me to navigate it with less confusion. knowledge is power. i am not the same person than before; I know myself better now
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i've run into a funny pattern where i refuse to use a diagnosis-ey word to describe myself until i have my own alternative model of what it's actually made of so i don't have to use the default one. noticed myself doing this with both "depression" and "ADHD" recently
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yeah i don't like crude popular concepts that invade my brain and crush my delicate local understanding of myself and now i don't remember what it is like to see the world or myself *not* through the lens of the crude popular concept
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YES! same here to both of what you guys said.
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too cool to use normie concepts gang 😎