There's a rush in medicine to label before understanding the deeper pattern. This clip draws the distinction: not withholding appropriate care, but looking past the label to the person — their patterns, and the fact that even longstanding states can change. Against the societal expectation that you'll always be a specific way, it offers something else: no judgment in these states, just curiosity, description, and the question of how to be with someone so they can live more the way they want to.
Part of Roots of Care, a series on whole-person, trauma-informed primary care. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVtaeaNoZCQ4
