Labels for mental health conditions can be useful because they give us a way of talking about our experience, and they can provide a rough guide as to what's going on with someone. It's important to be mindful of the limitations of these labels though. They're not definitive.
Say, for example, like me, you have anxiety and depression, that doesn't mean you have some kind of objective phenomenon which meets all the criteria of depression and then, separately, you have another objective phenomenon that corresponds to anxiety. The mind is not a zoo that holds mental illnesses like animals. It's way more complicated than that.
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