Quote:
Originally Posted by tigerguy
If a person is labeled mentally ill, what category does that person fall into? There are hordes of mental illness labels. Schizophrenia, bipolar, depression etc.. and many more...How do doctors know what type of mental illness someone has?
|
here in america (USA) we have set diagnostic critera that tells them what type of mental illness the person has, these diagnostics are located in the america psychiatric associations book called The Diagnostic Statistical Manual (DSM) At the present the diagnostics being used are in the TR IV edition. the new version will be out soon. you can keep up on any news about the new diagnostic criteria and DSM5 edition at
http://www.dsm5.org/Pages/Default.aspx