[BoredPositron]

Looking at how mental health was treated before the 80s-90s and that you easily lost control over your life. It's understandable not disclosing serious mental health problems. Personally I didn't disclose my bipolar diagnosis for 20 years because of prejudice like yours. It's not that you don't recognize mental health issues; it's that often people with your mindset don't believe that others are truly sick because they are acting otherwise "normal".

[d1sxeyes]

I'm sorry that you feel that way, that wasn't the intention of my comment at all, and to be clear, I am not trying to refute any individual diagnosis. I strongly believe that those suffering with mental health issues, whether they're chronic or acute, deserve recognition and support. I'm not a psychiatrist, and even if I were, I don't know you at all, so please don't take my comment personally, or assume any negative prejudice on my side.

That being said, there is a significant and growing body of evidence which indicates that autism[0], ADHD[1], and OCD[2] are being overdiagnosed, or diagnosed without proper clinical rigour.

How can those who are suffering from these disorders hope to get the best quality help if there are so many challenges around proper diagnosis?

[0]: https://acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jcpp.... [1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8042533/ [2]: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26132683/

[grumpy-de-sre]

Ah but that OCD study suggests the opposite of OCD overdiagnosis.

People who actually have OCD are being misdiagnosed with other more specific disorders due to a poor understanding of the heterogeneity of the condition.

[d1sxeyes]

Thanks—I may well be wrong about OCD.

[grumpy-de-sre]

OCD is extremely difficult to talk openly about, even in this TikTok era, society just isn't ready yet.

So by and far it's diagnosis is actually made very late, but I guess over time it'll become trendy aswell.