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by Blikkentrekker 1874 days ago
Well, as said, the article suggests that this is a novel approach, but similar markers have been known to exist for a while and they still aren't used in diagnosis simply because they're typically not more indicative than simply the patient verbally enunciating “I feel bad.”.
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This would, however, make a difference with people with mental illness. I make a distinction here between mental health and mental illness. I have been given so many different types of medications to manage so many different types of catecholamines, but they never know which catecholamines are higher low. I have bipolar disorder, it’s genetic, it’s in my family. If they could tell me what I needed to bring me down or take me up that would help me Tremendously.