To be diagnosed with perceived symptoms compared with the diagnostic categories provided by the manual looking for the best approaches. This forces us to take a break: manuals CIE diagnoses (from the World Health Organization) and DSM (the American Psychiatric Association, ie North American) were created in order to standardize diagnostic criteria for statistical purposes. In his curious evolution has finally become recipes forced diagnostic application. His formulas have been widely distributed and not only in professional circles. Today it is common that patients do not inquire about their discomfort, but that demand for treatment for a diagnosis that has been previously formulated by a teacher, a friend or themselves, using rich descriptions online. It is not that bad that they are informed, is that they are informed about what? Looking for the best treatment for a diagnosis, not for themselves, and unique individuals. Waive their personal existence subsumed artificially constructed a diagnostic picture for statistical purposes. It is surprising the increasing ease with which many people abdicate be reduced by people themselves: I am a Personality Disorder, Mood Disorder I, or even an acronym: I am OCD, BPD, ADHD.

a The psychiatrist, armed with his medical knowledge, explores the symptoms that exposes the patient performs certain questions protocolized to deepen their inquiry, comparing the results with the syndromes described in the manuals, and provides his opinion: it is a OCD, BPD, ADHD. Follow others, such as Daryl Katz, and add to your knowledge base. And, under well established diagnosis and his own experience, says he believes the most appropriate medication. Does this work, what is expected of him, and no one else demand. .