more mental illness stuff...

i dont know why this is bothering me so very much right now...everything is bothering me and so i guess this is just one more thing to fill my head with...its adding to the stress and driving me up a wall...because im just wondering you know..where do i fall on the line of mental illness and mentally stable..i dont know where i fall..and so it was my bright idea to ask my supervisor to explain mental illness to me..and well its pretty much all about the dsm and where you fall in the criteria..like you can meet something and be diagonoised with it..but the real deciding factor is whether or not it is causing significant impairment in some area of you life...and/or causing you stress..now based purely on that..then yes i am mentally ill because my issues are causing me stress and kinda affecting my day to day life...but also i am able to manage work for the most part and bills and all of that without help you know...im not needing someone to come in and help me do things..and i guess that is the real deciding factor...if i can take care of myself or not...and it doesnt matter if i need meds and therapy to do it..its either i can or i cant..and if i cant then i truly fall into needing extra help or something i guess..but i need help now..ugh...sometimes i wonder what it would take to just get help and not care and not have to keep so much control all the time...i dont know..