Not a label!
Define yourself! I was introduced to a trainee doctor in my oncology office as – "This is our patient he has colon cancer." I reached out my hand and said – Hi I am Paul… Doc looked up and then back down at his computer. This was 10 years ago and it still bugs me! That is when I discovered I had lost my identity! I was now a cancer patient or someone fighting cancer… Who I was no longer mattered I was now just a disease label! That is when I said thought NO! I was going to get my identity back, but how? We live in a labeling world! By illness, by race, by gender, by profession, by location, by sports team, by car type and least we forget college of graduation! We live wrapped in labels! I have conversations (not in therapy) with people and within minutes I hear things like I have depression or anxiety or allergies or nerve damage or blah blah blah….. People just use their sickness/disability label to self-identify to e...