Martha Manning (U.S. psychotherapist) People say, I have heart disease, not I am heart disease. Somehow the presumption of a persons individuality is not compromised by those diagnostic labels. All the labels tell us is that the person has a specific challenge with which he or she struggles in a highly diverse life. But call someone a schizophrenic or a borderline and the shorthand has a way of closing the chapter on the person. It reduces a multifaceted human being to a diagnosis and lulls us into a false sense that those words tell us who the person is, rather than only telling us how the person suffers.
Posted on: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 17:58:27 +0000
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