Whether people are told they don’t have depression when they do or that they do have depression when they don’t, it’s not uncommon for the disorder to be misdiagnosed. In a 2009 meta-analysis from The Lancet, docs only correctly diagnosed depression in 47.3 percent of cases—and unfortunately that means a lot of people don’t get the help they need or think they have a disorder they don’t.
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