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> It’s the long list of diagnoses Maya collected before she was 21, from borderline personality disorder to agoraphobia to obsessive-compulsive disorder, that b
by andreasvc 11y ago
> It’s the long list of diagnoses Maya collected before she was 21, from borderline personality disorder to agoraphobia to obsessive-compulsive disorder, that begin to hint at how little we understand autism in women.
That doesn't follow. It could simply mean that she had really bad psychiatrists who just threw around diagnoses. Maybe it reflects that mental illness in general is poorly understood, because they didn't discover that the other diagnoses were false positives. I am afraid that unless a diagnosis is followed by a successful treatment, it's not worth much.
- dragonwriter 11y agoYou seem to have mistaken "begin to hint at" in the article for something like "proves" or "necessarily, logically implies".
- andreasvc 11y agoNo I haven't. I just found it very odd that that was the conclusion drawn from this (even if it's only called a hint), while not saying anything about how bad those psychiatrists were.
- taurath 11y agoIts because a person may fit all the clinical requirements of a given diagnosis at one point, but may not at another. Getting to the root of a problem can be very difficult - even getting a basic response out of someone who is in a state of major depression or panic-attack inducing anxiety is difficult. You have to find ways to peel the onion. However, when the root cause isn't found and addressed, the treatment for the comorbid conditions can actually mask and obfuscate the underlying ones.