Comments by "Lepi Doptera" (@lepidoptera9337) on "Why mental health diagnoses don't work | Lucy Johnstone" video.

It's much easier to work with a patient who has been given a diagnosis. It doesn't matter whether it's spot on or not. What matters is that the patient has to agree, intellectually, that something in their life isn't going right. That's an absolute necessity for therapy and it becomes much easier if that "whatever is going wrong" has a name. You can't get anybody to submit to a process that is literally mind-altering without agreeing to the need to alter their minds. How are you going to get to that point if you aren't even willing to put a name on it? We can talk about whether we are over-diagnosing and over-treating, but that is a completely independent question.
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@deidreautumn Yes, we all know how helpful it is when the patient diagnoses himself in medicine. It's considered standard practice.
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