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Susan T. Mahler, MD's avatar

I find all these comments valuable, thank you for posting them. Putting aside the fact that may people don't have access to needed diagnosis and treatment, for my purposes, in my practice, I feel like the power dynamic in the diagnostic process has shifted, for better or worse. In a sort of Promethean way, we have made the diagnostic apparatus available to the public, and people now "present" with diagnoses they feel fit them. Not everyone, of course, but diagnosis is more co-created than it used to be. And like fire, diagnosis can serve people or endanger them, at least in spiritual or developmental terms. But this is on us; we invented the system.

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