i practically begged my therapist to diagnose me
La exploración de la patología psicológica: la falsa tranquilidad de etiquetar nuestras múltiples neurosis y psicosis, de que un profesional cualificado (un terapeuta) nos llevará de la mano hasta un concepto y nos señalará “este eres tú”.
No te busques a ti mismo
To deconstruct my definition of suffering as mental illness was also to deconstruct my definition of getting better. If healing doesn’t mean a reduction in symptoms, what does it look like? I wasn’t going to find out by tripping or reading books or having therapy, but by stepping away from it all and living.