When meds don't work: Diagnostic confusion, trauma, sleep, hormones, and mistaken expectations

When psychiatric meds work well, it can be nothing short of miraculous. Yet so often, patients accumulate a long list of med failures, leading to a sense of deep frustration and even hopelessness.Here Dr. H explores five central reasons why psych meds fail:1. Misdiagnosis, largely due to overlapping and confusing diagnostic categories and the general lack of a coherent nosology in psychiatry2. The role of trauma as the great imitator3. Sleep issues4. Hormonal status5. Confused and/or un...