# Paradoxically labelling an individual with a psychiatric diagnosis and seeing that as the sole cause of symptoms can become self-reinforcing "The big insight was that giving a troubled person a psychiatric diagnosis and seeing that as the sole or main cause of their symptoms was unnecessarily limiting, pathologizing, and could become self-reinforcing." [[Book - No bad Parts]] - [[20220908 We should accept mental illness as the result of human experience instead of labelling it and hiding away the cause]] University of Liverpool, “Study Finds Psychiatric Diagnosis to be ‘Scientifically Meaningless,’” Medical Xpress, July 8, 2019, medicalxpress.com/news/2019-07-psychiatric-diagnosis-scientifically-meaningless.html?fbclid=IwAR07fYCVRQr01rjrQGn6_dfRCHtELXf2bBeWB-J02t2mXYQRBY5fSsK_8ss.