Good morning.
It is close to my heart to share these thoughts in the hope that they may stimulate some of your own reflections on the matter.
After literally meditating and studying daily from 2002 to the present because I wanted and still want to understand the spiritual/metaphysical and psychological/scientific perspective, I became a Reconnective Healing practitioner, Metaphysical Counselor, Psychologist, trainer, Teacher, Hypnotherapist, NLP master, EFT practitioner, EMDR, Systemic Family Constellations practitioner and now Mindflulness practitioner. I do not mention the many other personal growth courses and countless books read.
Over time I have become increasingly aware of how useful but also limiting all the beliefs that categorize the individual can be. These include diagnoses. Working eclectically, that is, using what I think is appropriate for the individual in that particular circumstance, I realized that firmly believing in a diagnosis can be as limiting as believing in judgments and biases.
Each of us is unique; diagnosis while useful is always a mental concept that can be transcended like any other.
What we call decompensation or disease is nothing more than the best strategy the individual’s psychic/emotional and physical system has found to maintain a certain balance. By creating and believing the diagnosis, it is as if we validate the mental structure adopted to generate the “disease.”
If we choose to see beyond the diagnosis we can connect with the individual’s Essence/Soul that may perhaps find it easier to find a more effective and functional strategy now. Our awareness has a great influence on others, especially if they come to us for assistance in some way. I therefore advise everyone, including professionals to consider diagnoses with an open mind, without letting this limit the perhaps as yet unexpressed inherent potential of the individual, which I firmly believe lies within each of us.
What we believe about ourselves and others is perhaps one of the most influential factors in therapeutic and relational processes.
Do we therefore believe more in potential or limitations?