# Your State is More Fundamental Than Any Diagnosis

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Podcast: [The Great Updraft](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-great-updraft-7045130)
Published: 2026-06-28T19:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

Diagnoses are always trying to describe a state, which is more real than any diagnosis applied to it, and is independent of it: your state is not the diagnosis, and the diagnosis is not your state.This is a snippet from my Wednesday 24/6 episode, The Diagnosis Obsession Part 2.

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