The Mental Health Profession, The Variability Of Symptoms...

In the mental health profession, the variability of symptoms has an impact on misdiagnosing clients, that can’t be overlooked. An example of how the variability of symptoms can lead to misdiagnosis is with the diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder after a traumatic brain injury. For example, memory gaps resulting from coma and post traumatic amnesia have the same characteristics Personality change, including impulsiveness, reduced insight, rigid thinking, reduced motivation, and impaired learning and concentration resulting from traumatic brain injury, may also cause some complaints to be mislabeled as PTSD symptom (Sumpter, Mcmillan, 2005). However, how a person processes information from life’s circumstances also varies. For example, there was a young lady I grew up with, that was being raised by her grandmother. She had the misfortune of her biological mother being a prostitute, and her biological father was a pimp. Personally, I don’t know how I wo uld process this information if this was my presenting problem. Nevertheless, the fact that she was our friend cause us to ignore the circumstances of her life; in her resilience, she went on to college after high school and is now happily married in a successful career, has children and grandchildren. The obvious questions I now have about her: was she receiving therapy as a child that helped her make since of this senseless situation she was born into? Did she have to receive any type of therapy in college? OrShow MoreRelatedI.Primary Diagnosis—Munchausen Syndrome By Proxy. 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