
New ADHD Diagnostic Computer Test: Just More Lipstick on a Pig
By Kelly Patricia O’Meara December 5, 2013 Wikipedia defines the phrase lipstick on a pig as “a rhetorical expression, used to convey the message that…
By Kelly Patricia O’Meara December 5, 2013 Wikipedia defines the phrase lipstick on a pig as “a rhetorical expression, used to convey the message that…
Because psychiatric diagnoses are based on the subjective interpretation of behaviour by third parties. A psychiatrist may be highly trained but their diagnosis is still subjective.
How often do they get it wrong? Unlike in most other areas of medicine, where misdiagnosis is taken seriously, nobody knows very much about the extent of it in psychiatry. It has been very poorly studied.