“I was diagnosed with autism when I was a kid, but that was a misdiagnosis and I was then diagnosed with ADHD. But just recently I went to a different psychologist and she diagnosed me with Generalised Anxiety Disorder, and my autism diagnosis and my ADHD diagnosis were both wrong.”
The young woman I was speaking to was 19 years old, and she had already received three life-defining diagnoses. Was she mature enough to understand the implications of this? I doubt it. And yet this is happening across the world at an alarming rate. Not only are diagnoses being thrown around with abandon, but psychologists are overruling each other’s diagnoses, leaving patients to wonder which doctor has it right.
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