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Originally Posted by stopdog
Diagnosing is a lot of guesswork and the dsm is not infallible and was never meant to be the bible it got turned into. Often the so called professionals will not agree on a diagnosis for a person. Diagnosing is most handy for them because as a label, it gives them a slot to put the client in.
OP -what difference does it make to your case worker?
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I agree with stopdog-diagnosing is definitely not an exact science. Because a T is trained to think differently then a pdoc, who is a medical doctor, both clinicians are going to see different things and it is often helpful to have the T and the pdoc collaborate. I just want to point out that generally a T sees a patient a lot more frequently then a pdoc does. They are sometimes better able to observe a fluctuating mood, for example, and to put it in context (based on what they know is happening in the patient's life at the moment, or what went on in a specific session).