@UnholyTranquility that sounds like a lot to deal with. Are you getting support as well as the diagnoses?

@OhIsMe I have a therapist and a pshyc doctor. And an out of therapy support system in place. About a quater of my sessions my wife will come along to learn new tools to help me. But she also has issues, and knew about mine when we met eons ago.

@Notladylike You work in the industry?

@Notladylike I find it's worlds better than the multi-axial system, and while it'll be updated to match growing knowledge, that's the very nature of any scientific discipline: evolution of understanding.

@SW-User add this to the lifehacks section of the site. It's how I've avoided getting diabetes too.

@SwampFlower must be frustrating watching others trying to figure that out

@SW-User yeah the obsession with diagnosis isn't helpful. I can understand the need for there to be labels but they should be secondary to solutions.

@Graylight mental disorders are not an accessory, and I have never suggested they are. However, mental health is a scale and we all move up and down it throughout our lifetimes.

@OhIsMe Not according to the discipline itself. While about half of use will experience symptoms of a mood disorder like depression or anxiety, it's not a scale but the development of habits, thinking and often neurochemistry that affects mental health. No one's on a 'flu scale.'

@Graylight I'm not here to argue. The rest of this thread seems to be a nice place for people to talk about what ails them.

@caccoon absolutely. It's health not illness. We can all work better on our health, or just naturally get well over time.

@SW-User the side effects of antidepressants and antipsychotics are terrifying. I can totally understand why so many people don't stick with their prescriptions.

Indeed

I could talk about this for hours tbh it’s an interesting topic of discussion @OhIsMe