If im happy and living my life the way I want to live it, im not mentally ill thats how I see it
I did for a while but I dont anymore because I dont have enough negative going on to back up feeling ill
That's not how it works.
I guess we have to agree to disagree on this one thing psychologically, I dont consider myself mentally ill and since my last therapist backed that up im sticking with it
People can be different than the norm without being sick, variety is the spice of life
Also therapy can help people with specific issues and problems, i think that is what it should be used for not to label someone as sick for just thinking differently than normal lol. Like holy fuck how many geniuses were weird as shit but made so many amazing discoveries and inventions
We lack too much context to use your therapist's opinion as fact. I can't even tell how much spin and bias is applying to it naturally in spite of how otherwise In-The-Moment honest you tend to be.
For me knowing that medication doesnt work on me and unwillingness to be a guinea pig and risk the side effects of medication anymore, along with being happy like whats the point of calling myself mentally ill?
I agree that the label "mentally ill" if you take the words for their individual meanings is annoyingly insulting, but by a diagnostic perspective they mean something slightly different when the two words are put together.