LABELS BAD

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i wonder how the world would be without medicaal labels

Fun.

I think it'd be more confusing. People would have to explain pages' worth of information when they talked about what they needed help with, every time, instead of just saying something like, "I have ADHD and I need a quiet place to study."

Before I had a label, my life was horrid. I was being punished for things I had no control over (stimming, meltdowns, repetitive behaviors, etc.). If everyone had a reason as to why I was doing some of the things I did, everyone would be much happier. Once the psychological trauma is done, it's burned into your brain - it will never go away.

In adult life, the nice thing about labels is that they're confidential - between you, your doctor(s) and anyone you choose to tell.

I try to be careful about use of labels in application to myself outside of a confidential medical context.

To use the above post as an example, I might just say, "I need a quiet place to study because otherwise, I have a lot of trouble concentrating."

But if I needed to prove to a university that I need some kind of special accommodation(s), I would have my doctor document my diagnosis with the school's Disability Services, which keeps diagnoses confidential and simply communicates with faculty about what specific accommodations certain students need (not why).

I think it's more of a concern when you're under 18 and your parents are therefore both informed of your diagnosis and free to share it with anyone they want to. This can be a problem when the parent(s) and child have different opinions about how and to whom the diagnosis should be disclosed.

It would be confusing and everyone would be searching for answers about their behaviour and why they're so different. People wouldn't get the treatments they need. People will be committing suicide because they can't find any help. Depression wouldn't be noticed.

Labels are important.

^^ It's different when trauma is extreme, and when it is continuous and ongoing, lasting many decades or even one's entire lifetime, depending on the circumstances. In some instances like these it isn't always possible to recover, but one can still adapt to whatever extent one are yet capable of.

A few months ago, I installed SJ Games' "Fnorder" app on my iPod Touch. It gives fake "coded messages", or sometimes just smart-aleck comments.

The title of this thread reminds me of one of my favorites:

THOUGHTS GOOD!! SLOGANS BAD!!
THOUGHTS GOOD!! SLOGANS BAD!!

I'm referring to Callista's post to Gramirez.

labels can be good in bad for example in school kids with disabilities are giving extra help if needed but here is the catch if they do something for example trow food in the lunch room while there is a food fight going on i guarantee there would get taking out first, my own experienced or witness.

People wouldn't understand or know what to do to help the person. People would think they are stupid and others would too because they wouldn't understand why someone can't do what everyone else can do. Unfortunately people do need labels to understand a person. Sometimes a person needs a label to understand themselves.

MONIQUEIJ from my experience as a kid, I was faced with discrimination. While it was okay for kids to act up and misbehave, teachers and staff make a big deal out of me doing it but be ignoring the kids who were also doing it. It made me mad and I wanted to break the rules more to get treated the same way as other kids and it made my mother mad too.