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mopinko

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1. reliable tests for mental illness are SSSOOOOO important.
Wed May 11, 2016, 03:08 PM
May 2016

my daughter has epilepsy, and her seizures are mostly hallucinatory. she was seeing things that werent there. people lurking in the shadows. for YEARS.
she got a dx of ptsd, because, guess what? when you are living w distorted reality, yes, you get pretty anxious.
she finally started having more recognizable seizures, and the truth finally came out. but in the meantime, she was basically experimented on w anti-psychotic medications, and many of her physical symptoms were dismissed as anxiety.

check box dx's are a pox. we really need to find the biochemical markers for mental illnesses.
and if shrinks and neurologists could talk once in a while, that would be good, too.

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