Are Psychiatric Disorders Being Misdiagnosed?  Psychiatric Drugs Over Prescribed?
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Most science today has very exact measurements and descriptions. Such is not yet the case in the science of the brain and human behavior. Having more names helps a little as the science progresses and newly tested drugs are useful. Mental illness is a disorder and lives are screwed up and personal pain is acute. Remember only seventy-five years ago Eugenics considered all mental illness hereditary and patients were sterilized and some killed. Our social practices are the slowly changing and still produce a percentage of failures. Those free of depression in our society don't want to lose their advantage in their groups. Historically different utopias have been tried and failed. We all collectively come back to this social system. The only real help ever has been from the christian concepts. Even that is constantly adapting to meet our institutional forms in society. Therefore analyzing the profession seems to be accurate from one view of life. But without a better solution being introduced the complaints hold only a small value.
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Yes.  Have you got the right doctor?  The right medication?  The right counsellor?  The right diagnosis?\n\nEven with those things in place, it can be a long road.  It is really good to have trustworthy support in all of the above realms.  Good luck to you.  I'll be thinking of you.
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Because there are meds out there now that tell them stress is severe and over-dramatic. Doctors sympathize with them to sell more drugs and really, they use their "conditions" to excuse a lot of what they do/don't do.
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This might be a better question for your psychiatrist.
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consult your psychologist or psychiatrist
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Call or visit your primary care physician and ask for a referral to a psychiatrist for treatment. \n\nOk, I just noticed that you said you have been taking meds all your life for this. Who is prescribing these meds to you? Start with that doctor.
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i'm not, but it's not just psych drugs that people are turning to, it's other medications as well.  advertising does wonders.
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I was on the same thing for a little while. It is an anti-psychotic drug, but that doesn't mean your prescriber thinks you're psychotic, both anti-depressants and anti-psychotics are used for numerous conditions not just depression or psychosis.\nI stopped taking it because it didn't do a thing, not that I noticed anyway.\nForget any stigma you may think is attached to certain drugs of diagnosis, focus on being well and getting better and improving these things, what may have caused you to be unwell shouldn't be all you focus on, if you do that it can take over your life altogether, believe me I really do know about that, it's what happened to me.\nYou could also get a second opinion, and probably should, it's amazing how doctors diagnosis can vary so much from each other, I think it's worth seeing  another doctor even if only so YOU can look at your situation from a different angle.\nHope this helps a bit and good luck
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Check the ICD-10.  Look under Mental and behavioural disorders and Diseases of the nervous system.
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Mental health diagnosis is often criticized because of the inability for mental health clinicians to conclusively provide empirical evidence to support a diagnosis.  In other words, while a doctor of general medicine might ask you some questions about your stomach ache, surmise that you might have a flu, then run a blood test to make a determination, a mental health clinician most often makes a determination after only asking questions.  There is usually not a "blood test" or any additional medical testing, other than observation, to determine a diagnosis.  Thus, clinicians do not always agree on diagnoses.  Additionally, stress and other factors in life will often cause a person to exhibit symptoms of a specific diagnosis.  For example, people who have had a significant loss in life, like the death of a loved one, may experience an acute episode of depression.  The symptoms of this episode may be virtually identical to the symptoms of a person diagnosed with major depressive disorder in all ways EXCEPT duration.  Even severe thought disorders, such as schizophrenia, can occur in brief, accute episodes.  So, the bottom line is yes.  We all experience symptoms of a mental disorder at some time in our life.
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No it is not, maybe your problem is mental, you need a right diagnose, so get a doctor.
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The words "schizophrenia" and "Paranoid Personality Disorder" are simply a labels used to categorise lists of psychosocial traits that Psychiatry considers to be improper or abnormal in society. Psychiatry defines these traits as "mental illness", and promotes it as a "disease" that requires "treatment".\n\nIt is not a "disease", despite claims made in certain peoples answers here. There is NO credible scientific evidence that shows the existence of what constitutes "schizophrenia" as a biological/neurological disorder, brain abnormality or "chemical imbalance".\n\n"For a disease to exist there must be a tangible, objective physical abnormality that can be determined by a test such as, but not limited to, blood or urine test, X-Ray, brain scan or biopsy. All reputable doctors would agree: No physical abnormality, no disease. In psychiatry, no test or brain scan exists to prove that a 'mental disorder' is a physical disease. Disingenuous comparisons between physical and mental illness and medicine are simply part of psychiatry's orchestrated but fraudulent public relations and marketing campaign." Fred A. Baughman Jr., MD (Neurologist, Pediatric Neurology), & Fellow at the American Academy of Neurology.\n\n"Chemical imbalance…it’s a shorthand term really, it’s probably drug industry derived… We don’t have tests because to do it, you’d probably have to take a chunk of brain out of someone - not a good idea." Dr. Mark Graff, Chair of the Committee of Public Affairs for the American Psychiatric Association. July, 2005.\n\nSymptoms that psychiatry labels as "schizophrenia" (or it's related disorders), can stem from any number of variable sources. Many people have overcome disorders such as "bipolar" and "schizophrenia" through effective megavitamin therapy and effective nutrition. A growing wealth of evidence supports that underlying nutritional deficiencies can cause even the most severe mental disorders, including "schizophrenia". [1,2,3,4,5,6]\n\nYou may also be interested to know that the work undertaken by pioneers such as Dr. Lars Martensson and the late Dr. Loren Mosher show that there is also another way - far safer and more effective than psychiatric restraint, drugs and electro-shocks. For over a decade Loren R Mosher, MD, held a central position in American psychiatric research. He was the first Chief of the Center for Studies of Schizophrenia at the National Institute of Mental Health, 1969-1980. He founded the Schizophrenia Bulletin and for ten years he was its Editor-in-Chief. He also led the Soteria Project, which demonstrated that effective rehabilitation is possible without harmful antipsychotic drugs. Soteria provided a safe and sane environment where schizophrenic patients could stay, medication-free, with a young, nonprofessional staff trained to listen to and understand them and provide companionship. The idea was that schizophrenia can often be overcome with the help of meaningful relationships, rather than with drugs, and that such treatment would eventually lead to unquestionably healthier lives. The results were fantastic. Over just 6 weeks, patients recovered as quickly as those treated with medication in hospitals. [7,8]\n\nBottom line? Psychiatry is a belief-system, a "faith", not a science. Despite the huge marketing strategies, the so-called "research" and all the propaganda thrown at the world, there is not one iota of scientific evidence that proves that "schizophrenia" or ANY mental illness, in fact, exists as an actual --medical disease--.\n\nIf you have been told differently then know this: You have been lied to.\n\nFor more information, please visit:\n\nhttp://groups.msn.com/psychbusters\nDecoding Psychiatric Propaganda\n\nSee also http://www.alternativementalhealth.com/articles/default.htm#S\nand http
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Ever do drugs? \n\nI'd get a second opinion, if I were you...just in case. \n\nUnexplained mental problems are nothing to mess around with. This really is something that only a doctor should give you advice on, nobody here is qualified to give you a diagnosis regardless of their profession. It would be nothing but speculation and you really need to be checked out in person.
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If it is serious, you should try to seek help from a psychiatrist and he can diagnose you and put you on the right kind of medication. Pray about it as well. God bless you!
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Why don't you want to see a psychiatrist?  There are medications that can help your problem.
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What kind of disorder - you need to add more information.
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IF YOU ARE SERIOUS, \nYES, AND IF IT IS NOT BY RECREATIONAL DRUGS YU SHOULD SEE A \nDOCTOR, BECAUSE  I HAD THE SAME SYMPTOMS YEARS AGO, AND I GOT SCARED, AND DOCTOR THOUGHT, I HAD A TUMOR,, IN BRAIN, THEN HE THOUGHT I HAD A SLIGHT FORM OF EPILEPSY, THEN AFTER ALL THE TESTS, HE TOLD ME I WAS OK I WAS JUST DEPRESSED,\n\nIT GOT WORSE AND THEN I WAS HOSPITALIZED AND THEY  SAID I HAD A PSYCO  SOMETHING CONVERSION REACTION WHICH WAS LIKE A STROKE\nBUT IT WAS NOT A REAL STROKE, I HAD EIGHT MONTHS IN MENTAL HOSPITAL TO FIND OUT I  WAS DEPRESSED,]