Q&A from pardonmymelodrama-deactivated20
Thanks for reblogging my post. I really agree with what you added: "I think it's unhealthy to have such a strong sense of identification with one's mental illness." There's a difference between accepting your disorder and allowing it to envelop your entire sense of self. I was wondering if there was anything else you'd like to say on the matter that you wouldn't mind me including in a future entry on the effect of mental illness on self-concept.
pardonmymelodrama-deactivated20
Haha not much that isn’t obvious.
Idk if it’s exactly the same subject, but you could talk about the advantages of labelling such as it:
-facilitates appropriate reaction delay (you’ll react quickly if you know someone has suicidal tendencies)
-favors appropriate medication treatment or pertinent monitoring
-helps the person to have realisable objectives
-limits are known by the person and its entourage (could be helpful in professional life, for example)
-etc
and disadvantages of labelling, for example it:
-promotes behaviors linked with the label (makes pathological behaviors such as self-harm even worse) and justification of it (I can’t help staying in bed all day and not going to work/school, I’m depressed!)
-May provoke negative reactions from entourage (pity, hatred, stigmatisation, etc)
-May sometimes not even be the right label (bipolar disorder vs borderline personality disorder)
-etc
I think it’s important also to talk about hypochondriasis and to be critical of one’s diagnosis and to not take it as absolute, the diagnostic system itself being flawed.
Hope I was of any help.
All your posts are great, looking forward to the next one!
