Speaker 2
I mean, do you see this, I've located in other places, I mean, I know with hacking to work and in other places, there's a sort of like sense that, you know, right when something is coming into being, whether it's understanding about multiple personality disorder or it's benzene disorder, as you mentioned, there's sort of this transition period, right? Where like people are still trying to figure out this term and who it should apply to, whether that's from medical perspective or from the population's perspective. I mean, do you think that this is sort of just this liminal, transitionary period we're living through or it's something that, you know, you are concerned could become the status quo that we just in perpetuity are just constantly retreating more mild symptoms as being, you know, really concerning and thus seeing these kind of larger, broader effects that you're worried about. Presumably there's an upper limit when so
Speaker 1
many people identify themselves as having a mental health problem that that loses the meaning that it wants had. You know, part of the reason why these labels have power is because they signal that you're experiencing something unusual in its level of difficulty and disruption. So if I had to make a prediction, I would say that it can't carry on indefinitely in the direction it's going in because it will reach a point if we carry on in this direction where everyone is diagnosable with something. And then I think if we reach that point, then the labels lose the power that they once
