Hey, Zoe! I appreciate your vulnerability here. I struggle to feel that a diagnosis is ever that helpful. I've never been diagnosed with autism (though I have suspected I may have it to some degree), but I have throughout my lifetime been diagnosed with mood disorders and learning disabilities that have felt more limiting than they have ever made me feel "seen," but instead isolated. It's more helpful imho to keep in mind our diagnoses are really just symptoms of the cultural decay we're having to live in. Especially as artists this can feel really impossible to navigate.
Looking at the world around us I don't think our responses to it are inappropriate or unsual. I also feel like the metrics we're taught to use to measure our success are quite trivial. What if we just don't feel the need to participate in society's bottemless want? The things we're taught to view as security--ie, a corporate salaried job--are never actually secure. And it can feel as if we're punished from deviating from this way of life that's prescribed to us.
Just wanted to say your words resonated with me, and affirm that quitting therapy is totally okay! Often, going to your local Buddhist temple will bring you more peace. You don't have to intellectualize it, it just fuckin sucks!
Hey, Zoe! I appreciate your vulnerability here. I struggle to feel that a diagnosis is ever that helpful. I've never been diagnosed with autism (though I have suspected I may have it to some degree), but I have throughout my lifetime been diagnosed with mood disorders and learning disabilities that have felt more limiting than they have ever made me feel "seen," but instead isolated. It's more helpful imho to keep in mind our diagnoses are really just symptoms of the cultural decay we're having to live in. Especially as artists this can feel really impossible to navigate.
Looking at the world around us I don't think our responses to it are inappropriate or unsual. I also feel like the metrics we're taught to use to measure our success are quite trivial. What if we just don't feel the need to participate in society's bottemless want? The things we're taught to view as security--ie, a corporate salaried job--are never actually secure. And it can feel as if we're punished from deviating from this way of life that's prescribed to us.
Just wanted to say your words resonated with me, and affirm that quitting therapy is totally okay! Often, going to your local Buddhist temple will bring you more peace. You don't have to intellectualize it, it just fuckin sucks!