Good stuff. Fine-scaling is useful, but it's also important to remember that the domination of public discourse with these types of labels also shifts the fundamental psychosocial axis toward external definition and low agency -- and that changes how brains are wired. You (and everyone else) are a LABEL -- not a person. This fundamentally creates certain types of networked social structures, which do NOT evolve people past their label.
Agreed, it's quite the dehumanizing and deficits-based mentality. No wonder some folks' sense of mental well-being has suffered tremendously. A lack of self-efficacy papered over by pride in diagnostic labelling.
Good stuff. Fine-scaling is useful, but it's also important to remember that the domination of public discourse with these types of labels also shifts the fundamental psychosocial axis toward external definition and low agency -- and that changes how brains are wired. You (and everyone else) are a LABEL -- not a person. This fundamentally creates certain types of networked social structures, which do NOT evolve people past their label.
It also makes people more irrational. I have a whole blog on this if you're interested. Starting here is not a bad place to start: https://empathy.guru/2015/06/04/independent-vs-externally-defined-trust-vs-loyalty/
Agreed, it's quite the dehumanizing and deficits-based mentality. No wonder some folks' sense of mental well-being has suffered tremendously. A lack of self-efficacy papered over by pride in diagnostic labelling.