Removing diagnoses, removing stigma
More people are diagnosed with ever more diagnoses. While often for the best, the diagnostic inflation has some severe drawbacks: diagnoses can come to harm people more than helping them, and they can be stigmatizing. When the burden of a diagnosis is larger than its benefits dediagnosing, that is the removal of diagnoses that do not contribute to reducing the personʼs suffering, should be considered. Dediagnosing comes together with other measures against overuse, such as deprescribing (...)