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Apr 09, 2019, 03:17 PM
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Member Since: Dec 2018
Location: New Jersey
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Originally Posted by susannahsays
@ Sarah that's really only true when symptoms could be caused by an underlying medical condition (like an organic brain disease). It's not really true in general. In fact, clinical psychologists are the ones who administer psychological testing, which is what is typically used when a diagnosis needs to be clarified, not psychiatrists.
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Yes but mood disorders can sometimes require medication and in order to rule that in or out you would have to see a psychiatrist. And mental illnesses is at the very least biological and I believe having an appointment as a means of solidifying, confirming, affirming or treating mental illness is good practice.
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Mental health practitioners agree that psychiatric symptoms are not always best explained psychologically. In fact, neuroscience now maintains that mental illness is largely a question of biology. Although most psychiatric or emotional symptoms are appropriately explained by biopsychosocial models, studies suggest approximately ten percent (10%) of psychiatric outpatients have a physical disease as the underlying cause of their symptoms (Taylor, 2000). Anxiety, depression, paranoia, and mania as well as many other psychological and behavioral manifestations may be either a reaction to life stress or associated with genetic vulnerability, a neurological deficit, drug reactions, or organic disorder. This course will review how the brain and body affect each other, and how medical illness can cause depression, anxiety, psychosis, and cognitive impairment. .
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