The value of the diagnostic label has more to do with the way it impacts the person with the condition than anything else.
Can you remember a time in your life when you had a medical condition and you received a diagnosis that immediately lifted the weight off your shoulders and sent you to remedy your condition. My sense is the "propelling one into remedy" can happen no matter what the diagnosis. This is what I call the power of the label.
Before we give a specific condition a name, it is a vague cluster of symptoms that may or may not seem related.
Read Dr King's entire article Abusive Relationship - The Power of a Diagnosis in Understanding and Ending Domestic Abuse
Dr. Jeanne King, Ph.D., our official Abusive Relationship Expert
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