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What makes it hard to diagnose psychological disorders?

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They overlap causing misdiagnosed patients
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Symptoms of mental illnesses often overlap. Psychotic features, for example, are a part of schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders as well as mood disorders, dissociative disorders, and personality disorders.