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Everything you say is pure rhetoric, meant to gatekeep who gets to "justify" their struggles with mental illness, which is what this whole debate is always abou
by Llamamoe 2y ago
Everything you say is pure rhetoric, meant to gatekeep who gets to "justify" their struggles with mental illness, which is what this whole debate is always about.
You can't just f-ing assume that people are "making the label a central part of their identity" spontaneously as though you know what's going inside their minds better than they do. It's ridiculously disrespectful and dismissive of the likely issues leading them to do so. And not everyone is capable of getting a diagnosis for a number of reasons.
- chipdart 2y ago> Everything you say is pure rhetoric, (...) Do people self-assign those labels in spite of not actually having been diagnosed with any condition? Yes or no? If the answer is "no" then your post is just nonsense.
- JohnMakin 2y ago> Everything you say is pure rhetoric, meant to gatekeep who gets to "justify" their struggles with mental illness, which is what this whole debate is always about. Exactly - and there's no winning this argument at all with people like this. Say this hypothetical person (causing harm to who?) finally gets a real diagnosis from a real professional - people like this will often dismiss the diagnosis out of hand, with vague comments about how the DSM isn't "science" or that the doctor was incompetent, etc. I cannot help but feel that the root sentiment behind this stuff is a deep loathing for people struggling with mental illness - or at the very least a profound lack of empathy. I have never really understood it.