Keep Your Hands Offa My Mojo

[Kettricken]

I don't know--for me it seemed to put some form to the chaos. Chaos is frightening in itself, just because you don't know what's coming at you next. And once there's a label there might be some marginal predictability, even if it's an abysmal situation to expect. Different things help different people, I think.

I think that is very true. Uncertainty is one of the suckiest parts of the human condition, that's why we all try to control it as much as possible. And you do whatever you have to to get through the early stages in one piece, for sure.

I'm just kinda anti-label, myself, in general. I think a label often reduces a complex human being to a pathology. Upside: knowing how to deal. (Even if the diagnosis is incorrect, you *feel* like you have a game plan at least and aren't just thrashing about in the dark.) Downside: that pesky "reduces" thing.

I suppose the labeling can be a perfectly useful stage in the journey, as long as it isn't the ultimate destination.