Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Mislabeling Medical Illness As Mental Disorder

DSM-5 must emphasize that physical symptoms deserve the respect of a thorough work-up before assuming their cause is psychiatric. And people with defined medical illnesses should not be casually mislabeled as also mentally ill just because they are upset about being sick. (Source: Psychiatric Times)

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