Marsha Linehan is a powerful example of how a diagnostic label does not have to be a life sentence. The article below is about a practitioner who is world renown for her work with individuals struggling with overwhelming emotions and instability. As the creater of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), she has developed a treatment modality that that helps individuals struggling with the very issues she found so profoundly life-limiting. As she shows, people with mental health struggles can do great things :
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/23/coming-out-with-mental-illness/?ref=health