A short essay about how our promiscuous use of diagnostic labels implies that just about everyone has a psychological disorder. We end up not only pigeonholing people but pathologizing a normal range of behavior: https://tinyurl.com/ycxchv6r

And here's a related reflection on "semantic creep": how the too-casual use of words like "trauma," "abuse," and "gaslighting" (which, again, are now freely applied to ordinary adversities) do a disservice to real victims: https://tinyurl.com/335swru5