The Bipolar Diagnosis: How Reliable Is Reliable?

Last week, I posted Is the Diagnosis Worse Than the Illness? This was in response to some reader comments, in particular, Donna, who wrote that: “Honestly, sometimes I think being diagnosed did me in.”   Misdiagnosis is common, not to mention overdiagnosis and underdiagnosis. A psychiatrist, after all, unlike a radiologist, can’t exactly pull up the equivalent of a mammogram. If only, but wait ...   How reliable...
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