“Misdiagnosis is an incorrect diagnosis, while over-diagnosis is one that doesn’t help and, in fact, might harm the patient. One of the reasons to avoid certain medical labels is the nocebo effect, the opposite of placebo. Sometimes when patients get a diagnosis, they begin to exhibit typical symptoms of the condition they’ve been labeled with, even though they weren’t experiencing them before This psychosomatic connection between labeled identity and how individuals perceive and experience health should give us pause. While some conditions have testable underlying pathologies, the conditions that have seen the greatest increases in diagnoses do not.” – Collin Garbarino
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