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[quote=Anonymous]Both can and do happen.  Overdiagnosis, underdiagnosis, those who need help not getting it, and those who don't need help getting even more screwed up than they were to begin with by the "help".

Back in elementary school were told by "experts" that DC would need an aide in the classroom, we had professional head shrinkers tell us DC would always have lifelong debilitating functional issues.  Turns out they were just some temporary developmental quirks that DC has since grown out of and DC is in fact now thriving and flourishing, on the honor roll, lots of activities, and has lots of friends.  Looking back, we thank the heavens we didn't heed the advice and medicate the crap out of poor DC as some wanted us to.  I have a family member who went that route and their child now has worse problems as a side-effect of being heavily medicated than the original problems were - some of which result in permanent alteration of brain chemistry, and not in a good way.  Psychology and psychiatrics are VERY far from being any kind of exact science or anywhere near as reliable as other areas of medicine.[/quote]

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