New piece out today on The Polyphony. It looks at how diagnostic labels take on narrative power they were never built to hold—and how people find their way back to themselves.
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When A Name Replaces The Story
Monica Ross uses her personal and clinical experience to explore how diagnostic language can clarify, constrain, and quietly shape the meaning of a life.