LogFAQs > #969173667

I am treading waters carefully here as every time I discuss this topic (specifically with one diagnosis that starts with an "A") I tend to get modded but it grinds my gears that everybody is convinced they have this or that psychological disorder when we are unable to define a baseline "normal functioning" brain.

I am mainly talking about disorders where research is unable to differentiate the physiological differences between those that have it and those that do not. For example, it has been proven that schizophrenic brains are structurally different than those that do not have the disorder.

Why is it so important that people to categorize themselves in such a rigid and restrictive way? Almost as if they are convinced they were born as a different species.

I understand why it is important for psychiatrists to categorize and identify what a person may currently be presenting as but I think it is incredibly restrictive for people to build their identities around these labels. We pretend as if these people's behaviors aren't mutable in the least despite there being evidence to contrary. There are many cases of people (especially kids) actually losing their "symptoms" and shedding their diagnosis.