Stop Diagnosing
Summary
Casual use of mental-health terms like OCD, bipolar and narcissist can turn real diagnoses into insults and distort how people understand behaviour. Clear language, boundaries and professional support are better than armchair labeling.
Key Points
- Everyday speech increasingly uses clinical terms as casual labels, often reducing real mental-health conditions to insults or shorthand.
- The piece argues that diagnosis is more complex than a quick checklist and requires context, duration, severity and professional assessment.
- People can set boundaries and describe harmful behaviour without assigning a diagnosis to another person.
- In Nepal, where access to mental-health care remains limited, careful language can support more honest conversations and better help-seeking.
