Posted by Shortelise on May 30, 2005, at 14:20:11
In reply to Pdoc stuff., posted by thewrite1 on May 30, 2005, at 11:48:44
Labels, when applied to me, can really kock the wind out of me. Hard.
Your experience makes me think of going to the grocery store.
We need the labels on things so we know what they are.
The way things are in the states, where pdocs are the diagnosers and meds prescribers but not the therapist for the most part, and where they have to answer to the insurance companies who are BIG on wanting disnosis, well, I think pdocs have no choice but to make a diagnosis.
It sure would be nice if they'd say, hey, listen, I'm saying here on this form that you are bi-polar. This is no big deal as it's for the insurance company. Esp. when there are so many variations of conditions. How many of us would be bi-polar to some extent??
The pdocs live in another world, I think, a world where they define people. In the real world, where I **try** to live, we are all just pretty much who we are and doing the best we can.
But man, I hate those labels.
ShortE
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