Reply to post: Re: Stay At Home

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Re: Stay At Home

Absolutely. My main hope is that improving science allows mental illness diagnosis to start to move from an psychiatrist forming a necessarily qualitative opinion onto a more objective assessment of etiology and sequelae. This would help to depoliticise this type of thing.

With things like wider availability and sophistication of interpretation of fMRI and improving understanding of the (very complex) genetic underpinnings it's not impossible this might start to happen over the next decade or two.

As someone with a severe mental illness who denied it for years, was misdiagnosed with the wrong one for many more, hence and then took another years to get onto the right drugs - which took over a decade - IMO the main problem is less people feigning a diagnosis to escape prison etc. than not getting the one they need. There are many people imprisoned who should be under treatment instead, which would benefit both society and individual.

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