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A Short Account of Accepting a Mental Health Diagnosis

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Kali Fox-Jirgl
Dec 18, 2024
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A Short Account of Accepting a Mental Health Diagnosis

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I met with my psychiatrist for the first time two weeks ago.

I walked into her office heavy with cerebral baggage — a hexagon of psychological diagnoses that had, up to this point, been undiagnosed, and therefore, resistant to conventional therapy. My already establishe…

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