Raziel wrote:
Anomiel wrote:
I believe the researchers know the difference between emotional dysregulation and mania and depression, as it's not only autism and bipolar that features emotional dysregulation so they might not diagnose it based on that alone. It might be underdiagnosed precisely because people think it can be explained as emotional dysregulation.
If it would be that clear, it wouldn't be that highly controversal and also autism experts like Tony Attwood do primarily behavioural therapy with such children. I don't think that the answer is all black or white and that easy to answer.
The Misdiagnosis of Bipolar Disorder in Children with Autism and Other Developmental DisabilitiesDISRUPTIVE MOOD DYSREGULATION DISORDERASD, a psychiatric disorder, or both? Psychiatric diagnoses in adolescents with high-functioning ASD.Anomiel wrote:
As you know for a long time there were some restrictions on what they thought autistics should/could have for comorbids - and autistics obviously have a lot of comorbids. It's good that they are realizing that. It's bad that you got misdiagnosed, but acknowledging that many autistics are bipolar might lead to less misdiagnoses if that combination gets researched more?
No in my case this had other reasons. I've also transsexualism and was missdiagnosed within 5 minutes with Borderline PD because of my "gender issues", but now I'm rediagnosed wit transsexualism from several experts and already had my surgery and name change and so on. I just mentioned it, because it also happened in an autism study and not everthing what is published in studies is true. It's just a personal opinion of the researchers and if psychiatry would be that opjective, we wouldn't have such a huge controversal in some areas.
And to Bipolar and ASD: I think we need a lot more research in this area. I personaly don't know if I've Bipolar or not. At the moment I'm just diagnosed with depression. But I guess, I've too much stress anyway at the moment to be 100% sure in my case. Sometimes I think I have it, sometimes I think I don't.
I didn't say that
all autistics are bipolar, or that you are. I don't believe that we should be superskeptical to all studies like that (thought yes, the quick diagnosis thing is not as good as a thorough diagnosis) because you were mistreated. We can still guess which direction research points at, even if we don't believe that the accurate diagnosis rate is 100%. Maybe they should ask the participants if they agree with the diagnosis in the future?
We're just worried about misdiagnosis for similar but different reasons - I was misdiagnosed with major depressive disorder as a kid. I'm a lot more worried for those that are bipolar and get misdiagnosed than I am for those that are depressed and gets misdiagnosed. Most misdiagnosed depressed people are not forced to take meds, so not giving the misdiagnosed bipolar person at least the option to get meds/treatment/whatever and an explanation of bipolar is worse IMHO. But most do get the right diagnosis when they actually need treatment, so I guess it is ok anyway. I don't know how common misdiagnosis is either.
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