[AchieveLife]

> No. The we think "I've been diagnosed with a disease. (Sorry I'm being an a-hole|I won't go to your party|didn't get out of bed, I suffer from bipolar and there's no cure".

Straw man argument and incredibly insensitive. The proposed causation between diagnosis and excuse making behavior is ridiculous. People will make excuses regardless of their knowledge of a diagnosis. It's about what they _want_ to do and their level of comfort with confrontation.

Medicine will continue categorization because it assists with treatment. IMO, it's stigma like your pov that needs to be re-educated.

[elbasti]

Agree it sounded (and probably is) insensitive. I think a different comment expressed this more clearly, by saying

"that there's a certain fatalism that one experiences once they've been "diagnosed" with mental illness."

[AchieveLife]

Right.

I argue that the right education about mental health applied to the mass population would greatly mitigate the occurrences of many if not all of the arguments here.