It may be repetitive but this is another blog on why and how we can be disempowered by labels.
There is a saying “the map is not the territory”. I would amend that to say the diagnosis is not the person. So many times others, (most especially the psychiatric community) slap a label on someone that helps not one iota to explain firstly who that person really is and what they have gone through in their lives.
When I went for my second planning appointment pre radiography for breast cancer last week I was able to tell the nurse of how I was traumatised by the radiographer and her assistant the previous week. She went to find the social worker and while she was gone I read the notes on my file. The radiographer’s assistant had labelled me a “emotionally labile”. I had broken down in the appointment in grief.
When I googled the word “labile” I learned it was a term used to describe substance which were ‘unstable…
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