Mental Health Support

I'm not sure I've ever had an official diagnosis. It's always just been major depression and some mixture of other anxiety disorders. I've come to realize in the past few years that a MAJOR component of my problems has been sever social anxiety. But again I've never received an official diagnosis on paper that I know of. I probably have come to think of it as I was prescribed a number of different SSRIs over the course of about a year with my last psychiatrist but he never officially came out and told me 'you suffer from X Y and Z'.

Sometimes I would like to have such an official list of diagnoses but at other times I wonder if it would make any real difference. I think what I need more than anything is some serious talk therapy, which I've never had much of. If you manage to receive targeted therapy for your specific diagnosis that helps then I think it's more than worth it. But I think too often we are just dealing with more and more labels and less and less actual help. It's all fine and good to say I suffer from major depress, OCD, PTSD, social anxiety, etc etc... and it DOES help one to feel better when they can identify with a group of other like sufferers, but ultimately we need more than just labels and I think too often we don't get it.