Her and our problem with it is that it pathologises understandable behaviour and labels it, splitting it into discrete classifications whereas psychology (and differences in it) is more complex than that and is often interlocking/intersectional or whatever word is best.

It also stops people from getting treatment such as those diagnosed with BPD as they are then "too difficult to work with", therapist says this should be thought of as a manifestation of trauma instead, in fact a lot of things probably should be ioo.

It also can make people into diagnoses instead of individuals and that's very problematic.

We hope you can understand what we mean by this.

We have a problem with the idea of 'mental illness' or 'neurodivergence' in the first place as it seeks to establish a baseline by which all must adhere to or else there is something 'wrong' with you and it must be fixed and usually in the most ineffective ways possible due to procedures, funding, ableism and saneism. Plus differences do not inherently mean 'broken' and that should be acknowledged more.

Sure, if people want help they absolutely should be, but most of what the field of psychology and psychiatry do is not help, they are extremely gatekeepery, financially driven and don't understand nearly enough to actually help, if they even care at all to do so.

We think a better system could be created, indeed there are some anarchist therapists out there and those that want to look at things deeper in the scientific fields. However, in our current system there is still a deeply problematic ingrained lack of desire to go far enough to actually help, because the individual is focused on only when a lot of issues are actually due to the way society/the world works, which many in the field do not like to acknowledge or do anything about.

Edit: Plus labelling people a specific thing can actually trap them in boxes and make them see all their problems through that lens only which isn't helpful or good, especially as it can sometimes exacerbate their issues.