[ExI] read this, Henry

[William Flynn Wallace]

One big problem with research on ADHD and autism is misdiagnosis,
especially false positives, and even what symptoms have to be there and how
severe they have to be.  A child I knew whom I considered a perfectly
normal, active boy, was diagnosed with ADHD and put on an antipsychotic
drug, which made him a zombie.. Working with psychiatrists I saw one
patient diagnosed schizo who was diagnosed by another as normal!!!  In
other words, there is a big problem with the reliability of the diagnoses
in these two disorders, and others.  Psychiatry is not a science (neither
is clinical psych).  They are arts.  Another example:  people diagnosed as
schizo here are liable to be diagnosed as manic depressive in Britain.

Still, that is an interesting study which will be followed closely.    bill
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