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Originally Posted by rosska
I don't know exactly what the DSM covers, but when I was diagnosed it was partly via a 'RAADS-R' test, on which I scored 204. According to the psychiatrist who carried out the test, that was "one of the highest scores" she had ever seen. I live in Scotland, so I don't know if we use something slightly different to some of the other countries in the EU.
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I don't know about the RAADS-R [the second R stands for revised], but I was under the impression that the RAADS was based on much of the diagnostic criteria and description in the previous DSM?
Which is confusing, because I didn't think that Scotland really used the DSM.
What the heck do I know, though?
The DSM is released kind of... "when the APA feels like it" an at this point the development of it is often so bizarre and the information it is based on so convoluted at times, that it's no wonder everyone's head still spins even five years after a new edition.
Some research still references diagnostic criteria from DSMIII- it is research from several years ago, but the problem is that when others are writing articles or using past research as reference, they are then using outdated studies with outdated criteria.
Frankly, the majority of the diagnostic "system", in the west at least, is a freaking mess.
[yeah, I totally just said that haha]