"Psychiatric Symptoms" across Disease & Disorder Categories

​The Bias that comes with that primary psychiatric diagnosis

Val's Take/Conjecture

• This is building on the work of Neuro-Scientist David Eagleman and his observations that a ONE WORD LABEL could change how much we care about someone.

• One of the things that has been interesting to me in my research as well as my professional and personal experience:  
  • ​People with other illnesses and disorders such as:
    • CANCER,
    • MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS,
    • DIABETES,
    • NEURO-DEGENERATIVE DISORDERS,
    • etc.

                     often experience PSYCHIATRIC SYMPTOMS, 
​                     too.

• When we say someone has a "PSYCHIATRIC DISORDER" ---- what does that really mean?
  • It often means they have a complex developmental Neuro-Immune Disorder
  • Including dysregulated Microglia -- the brain's innate immune cells, and
  • Dysfunctional Mitochondria
  • ​Further, those challenges often track with other diseases and disorders.

• On the other hand, people with a primary psychiatric diagnosis are often:
  • younger
  • mobile  
  • experience significant emotional dysregulation
  • executive functioning challenges and
  • some unusual fatigue
  • sometimes some speech issues

• The lack of biomarkers,  BROAD SPECTRUMS and the existence of genuine dangerous behavior among a small minority of people with psychiatric disorders, leads to chronic stress---
  • ​not only for individuals,
  • ​but also the society at large.

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​​Mental Illness Might Be Early Feature of Multiple Sclerosis (2023)

Unraveling the genetic links between depression and type 2 diabetes (2025)

Demyelination in psychiatric and neurological disorders: Mechanisms, clinical impact, and novel therapeutic strategies (2025)

Evaluating metabolome-wide causal effects on risk for psychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders (2025)