Is manic depression borderline personality disorder sociopathic disorder autism aspergers disease all the same illness in different spectrums?

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They are completely unrelated, however some can be comorbid; existing together. For example, schizaffective disorder is a combination of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Also, there is a 40% comorbidity rate between bipolar disorder and high-functioning autism. However, there is some dispute that Asperger's Syndrome be considered a disorder. It is also greatly overdiagnosed, and it is really a fabrication of the pychiatric industry working in liaison with the pharmaceutical industry and insurance companies to con suspecting patients into thinking they have something wrong with them. I have a friend who was misdiagnosed with AS when she was 15 because she just learned and perceived things differently from other people. And I was misdiagnosed as well, because I developed slightly differently, and it takes me awhile to learn new things. But it was later seen to be a misdiagnosis; although at the time, I was going through a phase where I had traits similar to autism, i found out that it wasn't autism. I was just going through a quirky period. ANd we all do during adolescence. So I don't have any characteristics of autism, and you can't have AS without the autism. Unless there's such a thing as "Asperger-affective disorder", but I somehow don't think so...

I'm a psychiatrist, and I've studied these things for years. I tell a lot of my patients w ADHD or AS to get a psych re-eval. Because a lot of these things can be explained simply by individual modalities of processing information, and are not due to a disorder. I'm an activist as well - I believe that the system needs reform. And the diagnostic methods are flawed; I've seen the tests for Asperger Syndrome. They are incredibly vague and not very empirical. They're deliberately architected to get as many confirmations of the disorder as possible. THe same is true with ADD tests and bipolar tests. The entire system needs revision.

I'm sorry about the blurb - next time I will refrain from extraneous digression. But it bothers me that all these overdiagnoses are detracting resources away from people who have severe mental conditions, who really have it on the bulls-eye (excepting AS, as I really do think that unless you have severe autistic characteristics alongside it, it isn't a valid diagnosis). These people who have severe disorders are being neglected, and they're the ones who need help the most. But no, those disorders are separate manifestations, and although they can exist in tandem, it is usually because although they are distinct, they actually have some features that are similar. And this allows them to run in parallel...

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