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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I really appreciated this article from last week's new york times about the blurry nature of diagnosis of mental illnesses....

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/opinion/adhd-autism-depression-diagnoses.html

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Totally agree, this was a great article.

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[quote]Scientific evidence accumulated from multiple lines of inquiry, including genetics, brain imaging and circuity, and measures of the brain’s electrical activity, shows that while there are biological irregularities associated with mental illnesses, the patterns we see in these scientific studies don’t neatly match up with diagnoses in the D.S.M. For instance, two people might have a similar genetic profile, but one will be clinically diagnosed with bipolar disorder and the other with schizophrenia. Neither genetics nor brain scans can distinguish a person with depression, A.D.H.D. or autism from one without.

That doesn’t mean that psychiatric diagnoses are meaningless labels or arbitrary symptom collections. [b]They are practical tools that provide a shared language to describe very real patterns of distress and impairment and can help shape treatment. In practice, clinicians use them flexibly rather than rigidly.[/b][/quote]

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