When mental health clinic staff persons have made up their mind about you, it’s unlikely their perceptions of you will change, even if you act differently. If you’re pleading with them to let you go “I am not insane!” they may reply “you exhibit all signs associated with (insert condition). Even your retaliation at being diagnosed with this condition is expected, and thus supports our diagnosis.” When asked how a type of behavior has come to be associated with a condition, they may refer to some post-doctoral research studies published and circulating in their mailbox. But what if the person whose behavior was observed was perfectly alright, and only seemed abnormal because if it turned out there wasn’t anything wrong, the psychiatrist’s grant money would be pulled? Then all subsequent diagnoses would be, in effect, a stamp of approval, saying “you are hereby diagnosed as being perfectly alright.”