In 2018, psychiatrist Oleguer Plana-Ripoll was wrestling with a puzzling fact about mental disorders. He knew that many individuals have multiple conditions — anxiety and depression, say, or schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. He wanted to know how common it was to have more than one diagnosis, so he got his hands on a database containing the medical details of around 5.9 million Danish citizens.
He was taken aback by what he found. Every single mental disorder predisposed the patient to every other mental disorder — no matter how distinct the symptoms1. “We knew that comorbidity was important, but we didn’t expect to find associations for all pairs,” says Plana-Ripoll, who is based at Aarhus University in Denmark...
The article is correct...except that it should mention that psychiatrists, who are a subset of doctors, have never been able to get psychologists to fully sign off on the (i.e., this) psychiatrists' diagnostic system, and even far less so on the children's set of diagnoses, since they are not based in science nor are they particularly "valid" (confirmed by science/scientific method and especially again invalid in the case of children), but the psychiatrists, being doctors (not necessarily scientists, that skill is from training in science-research, which you get from getting a PH.D. (=research), not M.D. (=treatment), has been the group with the links to all the money, as controlled even more so by psychiatrists' absolute lock through lobbying of state treatment-practice licensing laws (which is where the money, especially insurance money, being in exchange for treatment services by doctors ..psychiatrists... has after all always been until relatively recently, when chemistry industry caught up with it's own capital creating direct-to-doctirs\psychiatrista treatment products\prospects (though still under doctors who now became big business and industrialist-capitalist types using their M.D.s).
Meanwhile science has not been able yet to shed a great deal of light on where else to go beside the currently/historically dominant group of witch doctors (which is also where all doctors were before the 20th century, so no knock on them at all), and they needed a guide system regardless and especially to work with chemicals\medications, because people still needed their help regardless of the "state of the art" (as opposed to the "state of the science," which hadn't caught up...just like with other doctors had been years earlier, everything evolves through time you know)...
So the psychiatrists reached a compromise (because, well, to get money from others for services...and especially from rising industries of third parties...businesses...not direct consumers, but business, you have to have some sort of billing language, something to put on the checkout bill (yes, it's actually a catalog list for billing!!!), to convince someone to actually give you money to pay for your ability to provide them... that's where this thing all came from, something to tell the pay authoriser what it is their money is purchasing, so where it would say to the customer 1 loaf of bread, read 1 hour of treatment for depression, 2 tablets of laudinum for anxiety)..., since back then the had the "art" the money, and the right to treat, and do so with drugs too, whereas the psychologists had the science... whilst early on really nobody had the chemistry (and the money for chemistry came from doctors remember, because they could charge for their services) and paying doctors to distribute, and thereby provide money for researching\developing more effective & safe chemicals (medicines), while money for psychologists & chemists gradually accumulated through lobbying of states licensing authorities and chemical business prospects, the way everything evolves if you think about it...which took a while because that is really just a way of saying about getting doctors to share (the money).
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