Just because someone identifies with and labels themselves as having a mental health condition doesn't mean they actually do. Here's why that matters, explains Joseph_E_Davis5
of mental health to date, for instance, found that in only half of treated cases of “mental disorder” did the person being diagnosed meet even the minimal diagnostic criteria. What doctors are doing in such cases hardly seems properly medical if medical means treating a disorder.
In the case of lay people, what are those who label themselves identifying with? Between the representations of disorders that people encounter in popular sources, on the one hand, and official medical discourse—as presented, for instance, in theMedia and commercial representations, as many studies have found, do not reproduce clinical meanings. An egregious example is a user-produced video mentioned in the TikTok study.
Consider how people talk about the conditions they use to articulate and explain their struggles and identities. Interviewees in mydid not treat their self-labeled conditions as having objective, predefined medical meanings on the model of afflictions like diabetes or heart disease. Rather, they defined the conditions in their own self-referential terms, flexibly fitting a definition to their own way of thinking about the meaning of their experience and their self-identity.
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