My personality isn't a categorical item...

First, I have to say, this post was more inspired by someone, than it is about someone, but, i hope the person that inspried it can understand what i'm trying to get at. Any how, I've never been a very big fan of psychologists. Sure, they have their perks, and there are most defineatly some very good ones out there, sometimes, they really can help people to work through their situations. I however, have meet too many, where they are oh-so-quick to just put you into some sort of physological group, or label you with some generic medical term. And, I guess to legetimize it's self as a science and not an art, there has to be a small amout of that sort of thing. However, I have strong feelings trying to take someones personality and/or their situations and just throw them into a group, and leave it at that. And, even less personable then, is to take that label, and turn it into a number. So, now at best, I'm Alex Cutsumbis with disorder 296.89, more likely i'm client 123456 with disorder 296.89. There has always been a disconnect though w/ medical scince and the people, the humans that they treat and study (See Patch Adams to see the inate need for doctors to have a close, human connection with the people they treat, "Treat the person, not the diease" -if i remeber the quote correctly). Anyway, maybe from a certain perspective though, some people need that, to know, that it's a known thing, and that other people have the same exact thing(or atleast according to the doctor you do), and that there is a certain feeling of connection and ability to share feelings w/ people that might share the same feelings. I do, believe in that though, being able to share feelings and the such with people who have been in similar situtations. There is a need, in humans to share a feeling of connectedness, and the need to share and understand people on similar levels with yourself. So, what does all of this mean ? I guess, what I'm trying to say, is that your unique, your special, and there are reasons you feel the way that you do, that while you might be able to share w/ people, and they will understand, and they might have been in similar situations. You... and your feelings... your emtions are yours, and you shouldn't allow them to be relegated to some number to a docotor who would never fully understand who you are and why, to some some number developed by the quacks of the world.