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"Since illness is constructed in the shadow of production, employers, the education system and the welfare state centre diagnosis just as much as medical and psychiatric institutions. Diagnosis is the arbitrary standard we must meet – a means of ‘bio-certification’ – that the state uses to separate the deserving from the undeserving. You may therefore need a diagnosis to get your benefits granted or to gain other forms of government support; or to get reasonable adjustments in education.”