Depends entirely on how much you struggle. Diagnosis is useful for knowing what kind of help to get. If you don’t struggle, but only see some kind of behavior patterns that might occasionally cause problems, you can just try to address those individually.

I have a diagnosis for BPD, which was useful for getting treatment and ultimately, financial support. These days however I don’t agree with the diagnosis and rather think I’m somewhere in the BPD/C-PTSD/Autism neighborhood but I don’t really need a clinical diagnosis for any practical purposes.

These are all just words that people made up, that reflect a cluster of patterns with great variability between individuals. They’re not absolute truths. Just tools to help navigate whatever system one finds themselves in.

meidän kuuluisa onnellisuus kumpuaa vain siitä ihanasta tietoisuudesta että kaikki loppuu joskus. /s

Laitoit /s, mutta et sikäli ole väärässä. Todellisuuden ja asioiden hyväksyminen sellaisena kuin ne on vähentää huomattavasti sitä kärsimyksen ja huuman välistä sahaamista. Vähemmän odotuksia, vähemmän pettymyksiä, enemmän tyytyväisyyttä siihen mitä on. Me ei ehkä olla “iloisinta” kansaa, me vaan ei olla jatkuvasti masentuneita siitä, että asiat eivät ole just täydellisesti niin kuin me halutaan. Helpompi siis vastata fiilis kyselyihin, että kaikki on “ihan ok”.

Tosin ei lähdetä sivuttamaan meidän edelleenkin verrattain hyvää valtion antamaa sosiaalista turvaa jne.

Nami

Donal Finn. I was literally just watching Young Sherlock with a friend and told him I don’t like Moriarty’s dead eyes. Charming actor but I do not like his face.

LOVE Peanut butter noodles!

Thank you ^^

Safety factors into all that, yeah? I think that’s valuable. Even if a coal mine isn’t great, at least they ARE running inspections…

Your current job sounds pretty important to me though! Accessibility is important.

Yep and yep and I’ve been incredibly lucky. I help run a spirituality (Buddhism-ish) related website. I don’t have much formal training, I’ve just been a shut-in nerd for decades and picked up skills that turned out to be useful for the teacher (they tried to make a website that was total shite and I told them as much. Long story short, they hired me).

I’m actually on permanent neetbux due to mental health issues ('twas partly the treatment resistant depression that led me to look into spirituality) but I’m allowed to earn a certain amount without losing my benefits. I get paid that exact amount and I largely choose when I work and how much. From my perspective, I’m now getting paid to do the stuff I used to do as idle fancy. Which is awesome. I’m also mentally in a much better place thanks to my own practice and the community. I definitely couldn’t handle neurotypical life but at least I can do a bit of work, kinda take care of myself and not let my home devolve into a total legbeard nest. Glad to be able to help provide service to others that was helpful to me. Plus despite not having very good people skills, I’m appreciated by my boss and the community and I’m welcome to be as I am, I don’t have to mask or sell “good vibes only”.

I’ve tried oil without much success… I’ll have to look into kittysafe oatmeal options. Thanks!