(June 7, 2017 at 11:00 am)Shell B Wrote: They are co-morbid. It's not the same disorder. They're not intermingled. They are just occurring at the same time. They might seem intermingled to you, but a team of doctors wouldn't treat them as one and the same. You would see a doc for your neurological disorder and one for the psych issues that go with it.
I have a cousin with epilepsy. She's not depressed at all. Just because it is more common does not mean it is the same pathology. People who have shitty diseases get depressed. It's not surprising at all. I repeat, you do not go to a psychiatrist to treat seizures. A psychiatrist will not provide you with tools to stop or minimize seizures because they can't. It is a neurological condition.
They can have the same etiology. That's why I said not always. Co-morbid does not necessarily mean different cause. You seem to be confusing cause with treatment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comorbidity
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2687521/
Analogy: If a person has hypertension that causes both cardiovascular and nephrotic disease more than likely that person would see two doctors to treat the comorbidity of the same underlying disease.
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental.
