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This website is my contribution to clarify some of the confusions around the diagnoses and treatments of psychiatric illnesses. As the consultant at a general hospital I deal with the outcomes of diagnostic mistakes and/or faulty treatments. In my office I receive desperate calls from parents whose children's behaviors are worsening despite "adequate treatments." Most of them have a common denominator: a Diagnosis of a bogus "co-morbidities" of ADHD with other conditions compounded by drug combinations with adversarial effects.

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Manuel Mota-Castillo, M.D.

The Crisis of Overdiagnosed ADHD in Children

This commentary arises from my concern about the superficiality that characterizes the process of diagnosing attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children usually followed by the prescription of one of the most powerful drugs on earth, methylphenidate. The years pass and I see an even more frightening picture, one in which disorders in children are often given inaccurate and punitive psychiatric diagnoses and treated with inappropriate medication.

Increase in Bipolar Diagnosis in Youth Prompts Debates and Calls for Research.

A recent analysis that found a 40-fold increase in the diagnosis of bipolar disorder in youth has highlighted diagnostic dilemmas and prompted calls for more research studies.¹

Screening for bipolar disorders in Spanish-speaking populations: Sensitivity and specificity of the Bipolar Spectrum Diagnostic Scale–Spanish Version

Bipolar disorder is commonly misdiagnosed, perhaps more so in Latin American and Spanish-speaking populations than in the United States. The Bipolar Spectrum Diagnostic Scale (BSDS) is a 19-item screening instrument designed to assist in screening for all types of bipolar disorder.

The Debate Goes On

Feb 28, 2012
A Delicate Brain: Ethical and Practical Considerations for the Use of Medications in Very Young Children.

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November 2011
Why Psychiatrists Should Sign The Petition To Reform DSM-5

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March 8, 2011
Bipolar Disorder often mistaken fordepression in primary Care.

March 2011

Folie en masse! It’s so tempting to drink the Kool-Aid.

February 2011

"Not all mood swings are bipolar Disorder"

September 2010

Bipolar Spectrum Disorders in DSM-V

April 2010

Some comments on the Psychiatry times web as a respond to an article by Dr. Allen Frances...

May 2008

Sometimes We Do Get It Right.

Psychiatric Myths...

and some public misunderstanding of mental illness:

Below I display a compendium of 16 misconceptions and myths that interfere with an optimal delivery of psychiatric treatment in the USA and many other countries. You can find the explanations to each one of these items by reading the articles posted in this website (already published by psychiatric journals) or by reading the book “Protecting your Children From Bad Medicine.”

Hear no evil, see no evil.

Some of the members of the psychiatric establishment who have been assigned to articulate de new diagnostic classification of mental illnesses which will be known as the DSM-V, seems to be isolated in the pinnacle of the Olympus. In November of 2008 I wrote to one of these scientists and, as of May of 2009, I have not received a response to my certified letter.

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Are the Media and the Public Still Missing the Clues?

A few years ago the eminent professor of psychiatry, Dr. Ronald Pies, wrote a commentary in Psychiatric Times titled: “Are We Misreading the Signs in Psychiatry?”

In that article Dr. Pies discussed the need for the comprehensive evaluation of patients, in order to arrive at the correct diagnosis.

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This link is your path to the truth about ADHD and Bipolar.

Psychiatric Answers

The place to get answers about mental health