Three hypotheses to consider when a medical issue can’t be diagnosed

As you may have experienced yourself, sometimes, when people are chronically ill and go to lots of doctors, the doctors conclude that there is nothing medically wrong. I think it's important in these cases not to jump to a conclusion too quickly about why it has remained undiagnosed and to take seriously *all three* of these possibilities: 1) Diagnosis Error: It's a non-standard presentation of a known disease or a rare (or frequently missed or misunderstood) disease, making it hard to g...
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Can mental disorders have benefits?

It's not often discussed, but I believe that pre-cursors to commonly-diagnosed mental disorders often come with some benefits (as well as "flip side" costs that are linked to those benefits). As these traits become more extreme in nature (e.g., sufficiently far in the direction of what would be considered a diagnosable clinical disorder), these "flip side" costs (as well as other costs not associated with any benefit) unfortunately, tend to rapidly outweigh any positive aspects. Here are som...
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