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How do doctors diagnose mental health disorders if you can't see them like you can see an injury?
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Mental health: disorders have certain signs and symptoms. By talking to the patient, reviewing records, and gathering information from people who know the patient these can be confirmed or disconfirmed. In addition there are psychological tests that help with diagnosis just as laboratory tests help with physical illness diagnosis.
Answered 5/17/2015
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