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Psychiatry has now decided to invent and propose the addition of some new disorders to their ICD11-PHC DSM manual. Among them is 'health preoccupation' disorder. This would basically allow them to diagnose anyone with any disease as mentally ill if they are experiencing symptoms that are not considered 'normal' for a particular condition. This will especially effect people with diseases that are poorly understood and have no widespread clincially available biomarkers such as ME.
I've done a post on these classifications and some of my experience of the St. Bartholomews NHS service:
http://findanswerstome.blogspot.com/2012/07/psychiatrists-put-their-label-on-poorly.html
I was also unfortunate enough to have had a one on one consultation with Trudie Chaulder Professor of CBT (it sounds like such an expert and mind-bogglingly technical field to specialise in!). I will aim to write about this next time.
thanks,
energyoverload
I've done a post on these classifications and some of my experience of the St. Bartholomews NHS service:
http://findanswerstome.blogspot.com/2012/07/psychiatrists-put-their-label-on-poorly.html
I was also unfortunate enough to have had a one on one consultation with Trudie Chaulder Professor of CBT (it sounds like such an expert and mind-bogglingly technical field to specialise in!). I will aim to write about this next time.
thanks,
energyoverload