A second implication for both strugglers and helpers is that the diagnosis is not the struggler’s identity. Even with clear-cut medical problems we don’t say, “I am diabetes” or “I am cancer.” Why would we say, “I am bipolar” or “I am ADHD” or “I am borderline” as though that is the sum total of our personhood? The temptation is for the diagnosis to be the sun around which all the rest of life orbits. But people are far more wonderfully complex than a diagnosis can capture! The fact is we’re all