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How necessary is an accurate diagnosis?
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<blockquote data-quote="klmno" data-source="post: 318196" data-attributes="member: 3699"><p>Welcome!! Ideally, I think it's best to have the correct diagnosis but that won't always happen. As the others have said, the first priority is that whatever treatment he's getting (including medications) is working and that things are working well at school and he's learning. I would <em>want</em> to know the correct diagnosis and think it's important in the long term because you never know who might try to "treat" it a different way, but since we don't live in an ideal world, I'd be a little afraid to monkey around with something that is working.</p><p></p><p>Personally, it appears that certain diagnosis's are "trendy" anyway. ADHD, the BiPolar (BP), now Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD), so I'm not so sure it means as much to others as it does the parents.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="klmno, post: 318196, member: 3699"] Welcome!! Ideally, I think it's best to have the correct diagnosis but that won't always happen. As the others have said, the first priority is that whatever treatment he's getting (including medications) is working and that things are working well at school and he's learning. I would [I]want[/I] to know the correct diagnosis and think it's important in the long term because you never know who might try to "treat" it a different way, but since we don't live in an ideal world, I'd be a little afraid to monkey around with something that is working. Personally, it appears that certain diagnosis's are "trendy" anyway. ADHD, the BiPolar (BP), now Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD), so I'm not so sure it means as much to others as it does the parents. [/QUOTE]
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