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Not to derail too much but this is the reason people are so overdiagnosed these days. All the criteria are vague, even psychiatrists overdiagnose all the time.
by andrewvc 10y ago
Not to derail too much but this is the reason people are so overdiagnosed these days. All the criteria are vague, even psychiatrists overdiagnose all the time.
Even the guy who chaired the DSM-IV thinks so: http://www.amazon.com/Saving-Normal-Out-Control-Medicalization/dp/0062229265 http://www.amazon.com/Saving-Normal-Out-Control-Medicalizati...
Modern psychiatry is 50% science 50% tarot cards if you ask me.
- bduerst 10y agoIt's pattern recognition, like the other diagnostic fields, but more qualitative due to the human behavior inputs. This leads to larger margins of error, and equating it with tarot reading isn't an apt analogy.