I too question "a lot of psychiatric disorder diagnostics".
I even question if Psychiatry even deserves it's own speciality. Maybe they deserve a speciality in medicine, but their training needs a revival--a serious restructuring
of all teaching requirements in order to obtain a license to
call themselves specialists? Actually, I would like to see
all medications that don't work, or work slightly better
than placebo( in a bunch of "cherry picked" studies, by drug
companies); made illegal to sell. I still can't believe
their are Psychiatrist out their who claim to know how a particular drug works in the brain. I literally want to
throw up when I hear a Doctor who claims to be an expert
in their esoteric field of medicine. Especially, when every
other month a study comes out questioning the validity
of a medication, or the efficacy of Therapy. Yes--I will
take my expensive, addictive medications--like I do every
day. Sorry, for my rant. Oh yea, why am I still paying
for doctors, and meds? Because, insurance companies just
flat out refuse to cover certain medications, and limit
doctor visits. I don't blame Obama--the Republicans fought
his original bill at every step. I am grateful that people
won't lose their home in collections if they get serious
ill.
This subthread has nothing to do with the original article...
Let's please avoid hijacking this discussion and avoid arguing about the prevalence of things like ADD (as richly ironic as these discussions may be :-)