AndyPR
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Another example of a physical illness misdiagnosed as a psychiatric one.
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/j...ed-with-terminal-illness-20170408-gvgp83.htmlAward-winning journalist Jill Singer has been told she has only six to 12 months to live after being diagnosed with a rare blood disorder.
Singer, 60, says she was "two weeks from dead" when she was finally told six weeks ago that she had AL amyloidosis, a disease where amyloid-form proteins in the blood are attacking her heart and peripheral nerves.
It followed a year of medical misdiagnosis where the journalism veteran endured four rounds of electroconvulsive treatment after specialists wrongly linked her physical symptoms with depression