Study: Psychiatric Diagnoses Are ‘Scientifically Meaningless’ In Treating Mental Health

Studyfinds.org ^ | 7/9/19 | John Anderer

[HangnJudge]

No two people are exactly alike. Therefore, attempting to classify each unique individual’s mental health issues into neat categories just doesn’t work. That’s the claim coming out of the United Kingdom that is sure to ruffle some psychologists’ feathers.

More people are being diagnosed with mental illnesses than ever before. Multiple factors can be attributed to this rise; many people blame the popularity of social media and increased screen time, but it is also worth considering that in today’s day and age more people may be willing to admit they are having mental health issues in the first place. Whatever the reason, it is generally believed that a psychiatric diagnosis is the first step to recovery.

That’s why a new study conducted at the University of Liverpool has raised eyebrows by concluding that psychiatric diagnoses are “scientifically meaningless,” and worthless as tools to accurately identify and address mental distress at an individual level.

[HangnJudge]

Psychiatric diagnoses are useless in determining how to treat those with mental illness

[SERKIT]

The convulsions, vomiting, and diarrhea from the left and the media (sorry for the redundancy) is a combination of the dual-diagnosis of Trump Derangement Syndrome and Hopium Withdrawal. Patient Zero is Rep. Maxine Waters. The psychosis spread through contact with Main Stream Media, and Democrat leadership. An unsuccessful series of placebo treatments included false and deceptive news reports, multiple Democrat-led hearings, and a defective 3-year inquisition. I realize the preceding is utterly useless, but it is an identifiable illness.

[Buckeye McFrog]

More people are being diagnosed with mental illnesses than ever before. Multiple factors can be attributed to this rise;

My theory is that in earlier times a fully functional social structure (family, marriage, community, church) kept people with these issues from going completely off the rails.

Whereas today they have pretty much withdrawn from all of those things and spend all of their time on social media talking to other mentally ill people, all reinforcing each other, which creates an endless feedback loop.

[Grimmy]

My theory is that the more psychiatrists and therapists we churn out the more certified mentally ill are needed to keep those “professionals” paid.

[HangnJudge]

...spend all of their time on social media talking to other mentally ill people

It’s called the Hall of Mirrors
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/open-gently/201504/do-you-ever-feel-you-live-in-hall-mirrors

[Phlap]

A 100 years ago or so when I took a Sociology course in criminality, a Psychiatric Diagnoses of a man said the public had nothing to fear. At that time, the man had a dead body in the trunk of his car. And it took this long to come to this conclusion?

[HangnJudge]

Wonderful carnival of metaphors!
It is tragic and comical to watch the Progressives self destruct

[Wuli]

I think the authors of the “study” may be missing the point.

People can reach a similar state of the their mental health, while having taken different paths getting there, including some with and some without traumatic events along the way. Their causes need not be the same, and yes, some diagnosis can have SOME similar symptoms with other diagnosis - just as is true in many biological medical issues.

That does not mean that a similar mental status they have obtained is wrong or “meaningless” just because the specific causes for it in each of their lives differs.

Also psychology and psychiatry do NOT presuppose that treatment for a particular mental state must or will follow exactly the same path for each individual or that that path will or ought to ignore the unique path the individual took in getting there. The authors seem to either ignore that or don’t understand it.

I am not really clear on what the motives of the authors of the “study are”, but I do think their conclusions miss the mark.

[HangnJudge]

Original Article

Heterogeneity in psychiatric diagnostic classification

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0165178119309114?via%3Dihub

[I want the USA back]

“No two people are exactly alike. Therefore, attempting to classify each unique individual’s mental health issues into neat categories just doesn’t work”

Exactly what I have been saying for years, and I didn’t need any “study” to know that.

[HangnJudge]

It has been my experience, in my limited 33+yr experience in Neurology, that there is a high degree of variability in diagnostic impressions of the same patient that has more to do with observer bias than clinical presentation.

Prior trauma, especially sexual trauma from trusted adults, in my experience, pay key roles in molding a patients pathologic response to current real or perceived threats.

I have repeatedly seen the same patient variably diagnosed with Schizophrenia, Schizo-affective Disorder, and Bipolar Disorder, from admission to admission. It causes an outside observer to exhibit distrust in the scientific rigorousness of Psychiatric care, and by extension, Psychiatric Literature and Studies

We really need better answers

[suekas]

It is also a way to become a legal drug addict.

[Seruzawa]

Anyone with a brain should know by now that psychiatry is a scam.

[Chickensoup]

what the hell are you talking about?

[HangnJudge]

...psychiatry is a scam.

No, I don't believe that
But it is intrinsically complex and difficult
Suffering is everywhere
Observer bias is problematic
With very limited available therapeutic modalities
At least from a pharmacologic standpoint
With high failure rates, difficult side effects, and complications

I do not see you, and you do not see me
You are projecting your self, and I am interpreting that projection
At best we see a shadow of a shadow, or an echo of an echo
Only One who Sees All realy understands whats going on
At best we see through darkened glasses dimly

But the Psychiatry Literature is badly damaged by the... Indeterminacy

[BusterDog]

I’m healed!

[SunkenCiv]

Cool, not having a diagnosis will make it extra easy to treat mental illness.

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