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Originally Posted by Hain
While a single personal experience proves nothing: a friend's brother clearly had serious issues, whom was diagnosed as ADHD despite the family insisting the doctor consider it to be a bipolar disorder due to the family's history of bipolar members. Now, I can't say if the family took the little hellion in for a second opinion, but he was diagnosed later to be bipolar and not ADHD.
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By "family doctor" do you mean psychologist, psychiatrist, or medical doctor? A medical doctor is no more qualified to make a psychological diagnosis than a psychologist is to make a medical diagnosis.
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Originally Posted by Hain
There is a difference as physics and engineering have been around long enough that there have been objective standards invented, leading to detailed rubrics that future engineers and scientists must adhere to and promptly they will receive successful results. Application of psych' science is not yet 100% effective. Give it time and I bet it won't be like that.
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Psychology's roots are in philosophy which could possibly predate physics, but that's immaterial. The age of a science does not necessarily correlate with it's effectiveness. Neuroscience saw it's beginning in ancient Egypt, but it only really has become useful in the past few hundred years.
Again, demonstrate why psychology/psychiatry is not as effective as another science. I'm starting to sound like a broken record.