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How to separate your identity from your mental health story

My whole family talks about our mental illness like it is our identity and I want to be more than my diagnosis but I do not know how.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Diagnostic narratives have become totalizing identity structures that limit possibilities for growth and change.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Narrative therapy and story-rewriting?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.