How to Affirm and Validate a Mental Health Diagnosis

Many of us idiotears feel that we need other people to affirm and validate our experience in order for us to make that experience real or legitimate. To me, how many of you struggle with this, as if you need a parent to affirm what a doctor has already told you? But we want that affirmation, don't we? Hut dang. I really crave it. It's so hard for me to believe my own truth without somebody else first affirming it. And i'm beginning to learn that this is because of childhood dramas ... Our families operate in emotional immaturity and codependency and blob lab law, lots of therapy talk. If you choose to tell people about your diagnosis