vistaril has improved his behavior recently.
There have been experiments with this. Psychiatry has a fairly low reliability rate when it comes to diagnosis. Validity is a whole other topic, but validity can only be assured once there is reliability. (I took a research methods class this summer, related to political science, but we briefly used psychiatry as an example.) The short of it is, from what I remember, is that the same presented symptoms will yield rather varying results from psychiatrist to psychiatrist. That could be why, at least in my experience, psychiatrist (and psychologists, as well) have been rather reluctant to label me, and labels are generally said to be just for the purpose of insurance filing.It'd be kind of funny to see a 'Grand Rounds' thread where people could post anonymous descriptions of their own personality traits/quirks/foibles etc etc and see what sort of diagnosis they end up with.
