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Perhaps also consider including the undiagnosed/misdiagnosed for all neuro-related illnesses (which just since the end of July I have personlly known at least 3 other professionals with serious neuro related illnesses struggling with similar types of issues as MG patients on here regarding the diagnosis/treatment). It seems to be trending towards more rather than less.
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About 30-50% of patients seen in neurology clinics have "medically unexplained disease".
The DSM-5 has a new entity: functional neurological disorder.
The only criterion for this psychiatric diagnosis is that the patient's disabling neurological symptoms can not be explained by the current understanding and knowledge of the neurologist seeing him or the entire field of neurology.
I tried to write a letter to the editor of a neurology journal about it. This was the fastest "rejection letter" I have received. (within an hour!).