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“Whether or not you choose to incorporate your illness into your core identity is totally up to you. That’s also something that may change over the course of time as your illness evolves and perhaps becomes more chronic in nature. Regardless, you are not reducible as a person to your mental illness alone, nor does your illness define your inherent worth.”

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Book:Making Sense of Psychiatric Diagnosis: Understanding the DSM-5
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