🔒SICKCARE — Part III: The Identity Trap (When a Diagnosis Becomes a Destiny)
A diagnosis can offer relief, validation, and a name for suffering. But over time, it can also become a boundary—quietly reshaping identity, expectations, and possibility. This reflection explores how diagnostic language can harden into destiny, trapping people in stories that limit recovery, agency, and imagination, even when the original intent was care.
A diagnosis can offer relief, validation, and a name for suffering. But over time, it can also become a boundary—quietly reshaping identity, expectations, and possibility. This reflection explores how diagnostic language can harden into destiny, trapping people in stories that limit recovery, agency, and imagination, even when the original intent was care.