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Hi,

I found the same thing.  I've been diagnosed with agoraphobia/depression, and I found the way the medical profession concentrated on what was "wrong" with me was really defeating and made me worse.  The same with well meaning friends who want to help.  They get so caught up with "helping" me that they start seeing me as an illness and not as a person.  I remember sitting in a room once with a doctor and my family, they were all discussing what I should do ... and they left me completely out of the conversation.

The people who have helped most are the ones who just accept me, with all my quirks, and let me get on with the job of getting better.

The hardest part of dealing with the illness has been dealing with other peoples perceptions of it.

cheers

Mouse