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Wednesday, June 6. 2012

Problems with life vs. Psychiatric diagnoses

In my post yesterday, Dr. Frances discussed "diagnosis inflation" and "medicalization" of normal life troubles. It would seem obvious that not everybody with a problem has an illness.


However, labeling a problem as an illness does help obtain insurance coverage. That may be the whole point. This topic is discussed briefly here.

Posted by Dr. Joy Bliss at 15:31 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

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From the age of 13 to 58 I had the same doctor. Most of my ills were passed off to being a neurotic. He retired and I got a brand new doctor who ran a bunch of tests and found out I had all kinds of things wrong with me. Being a neurotic is a lot more comfortable.
#1 J on 2012-06-06 18:27 (Reply)
Insurance. It sounds tawdry, of course, but when you are miserable and don't have the money for expensive treatment, getting that treatment in any way possible becomes important.
#2 Assistant VIllage Idiot (Link) on 2012-06-06 22:50 (Reply)

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