Quotes About Self-labeling

It is clear that we cannot distinguish the sane from the insane in psychiatric hospitals. The hospital itself imposes a special environment in which the meanings of behavior can easily be misunderstood. The consequences to patients hospitalized in such an environment-the powerlessness, depersonalization, segregation, mortification, and self-labeling-seem undoubtedly countertherapeutic.

You shouldn't feel you have to label yourself for someone else to understand you. You should be able to feel what you want to feel and that's okay.

I don't like being labelled so I decided to label myself.