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  • Author : ivana
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24 Apr 2015 07:10 AM
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Kiera80-

While mental illness is sometimes genetic it isn't always, i agree.

Unfortunately many psychiatrists get "tunner vision" and only reference from the DSM and forget(or disbelieve) that there are many other medical factors that can cause mental illness symptoms.

On the other hand,other specialists (such as endocrinolgist etc) often dont want to "deal with" people with mental type symptoms due to the stigma that they have towards them and direct them right back to the psychiatrist instead of looking for underlying causes of their symptoms such as graves disease etc..

BPD-what your sister has been "labelled" with can also be caused by enviromental factors such as sexual abuse.

Other causes of mental type symtoms include thryoid dysfunction disorders,B12 deficiency,B3 deficiency,tumors,TLE,cysts and much more.

In addition,Postmortem studies of people diagnosed with schizophrenia and depression have also shown neuroinflammation,oxidative stress,mitochondrial dysfunction etc..

http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/forensic-psychiatry/differential-diagnosis-psychotic-symptoms-medical-%E2%80%9Cmimics%E2%80%9D

http://www.eric.vcu.edu/home/resources/pipc/Anxiety_Disorders/Article_Medical_Mimics_of_Anxiety_Disorders.pdf

http://www.jneuroinflammation.com/content/10/1/43

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