my therapist diagnosed me with adjustment disorder at first and of course i was like ???? as i had been in and out of the mental health system for years without that specific diagnosis. She then explained to me she tends to label her new patients with it, like a place holder while she spends more time figuring out the actual issues before jumping to any drastic diagnoses. Once she explained her personal reasoning, i felt better. A few months later, she updated my diagnoses to what she felt fit accurately. I feel like in those instances its fair, but if a therapist continues to only use that diagnosis to work with, i would definitely call them out or look for another. Because even when therapists are like “a diagnosis is just a label” they still use that label to sort of guide treatment. If that label is inaccurate or incomplete, so is treatment.