an interesting question drifted into my conscious frame and i thought it was compelling enough to make a post about that isn't a shitpost:
why do i want to find out what's wrong with me?
it's interesting because i've always wanted to find out what was going on in my brain but was never really sure why that was.
i can catalogue my symptoms - anxiety, depression etc. - but i can't seem to twig what categorisation would actually *do* for me. and i suppose i gain comfort in that
having a label to say "this is what's up" is great and all when it's an injury, something i can physically identify like a sprained ankle or a broken arm... but when it comes to mental illness that sort of shit is as fluid as it comes. like any illness it affects people in different and unique ways and not all qualifiers apply
in a weird way i think my object-oriented brain would be more comfortable in the knowledge that this was this and that was that, but what help does it give me?
@pearshapes
mostly means you can find a community of similarly affected people, I think