In today's episode of Psych Talk, I discuss the symptom overlap in mental health diagnoses as classified by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. As many people are aware, there are various symptoms of mental health disorders that are found across multiple diagnoses, which can complicate getting the correct diagnosis or result in individuals receiving multiple diagnoses based on a few symptoms. A few weeks ago, there was a paper, Elemental Psychopathology: Distilling constituent symptoms and patterns of repetition in the diagnostic criteria of the DSM-5, going around Twitter that researched the overlap in symptoms across mental health diagnoses. In this episode, I break down the methods and findings of the research paper and discuss implications of such, including how this impacts diagnosing, both by a mental health professional and self-diagnosis, as well as research implications. Further, I discussed proposed alternative classification systems to the DSM including RDoc, Network Analysis, and HiTOP.

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Elemental Psychopathology: Distilling constituent symptoms and patterns of repetition in the diagnostic criteria of the DSM-5

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