Labels Don’t Define Us
So resist the pressure to conform.
Someone says, “I’m ADHD.”
Someone else says, “I have PTSD.”
These are diagnoses which are medical labels used as shorthand to describe complicated symptoms or behaviors some people have in common.
The best diagnosis you can have is the one linked to a therapy that works every time.
The worst diagnosis you can have describes your problem but provides no answers and leaves you labeled and alone.
I know what ADHD and PTSD stand for but I don’t know of any cures.
Certainly there are therapies or methods that might help and if you have one or both of these or any other psychological condition that someone with the appropriate expertise has diagnosed, then, in addition to giving a correct diagnosis, I hope they were also able to provide you with therapy that improved your life.
But let me give you a practical warning: Resist seeing yourself as a label or diagnosis.
Don’t write off your ability to affect profound change and improve your own life by the choices you make today.
Please note that I said you can improve your life, not necessarily your lifespan.
Lifespan is not in anyone’s control except those who choose to take their own lives.
The problem with that choice is it gives up having a victorious death — one that comes while you are living the dream and while you are loving and encouraging others you will be leaving behind.
The victorious death is given to those who chose at a point earlier in life to no longer see death as the worst thing that can ever happen in this world. People who think that it is, somehow have forgotten a universal truth. The death rate for mankind is 100%.
Here is something worse than death.
It is succumbing to a label, a diagnosis, and living in daily defeat, pining over losing a life you are actually no longer living.
By choosing to die to self and live to love God as early in life as possible, the problem of death is defeated up front. Now life can truly begin no longer shackled to the fear of death.
When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written:
“Death is swallowed up in victory.”