MEDICINE & HEALTH

Individual Advocacy Group

Diagnostic Overshadowing in Healthcare: Insights from Individual Advocacy Group

In clinical settings involving mental health and developmental disability care, what a clinician expects to see can shape what they look for. Individual Advocacy Group (IAG) notes that this dynamic, known as diagnostic overshadowing, can limit clinical curiosity, delay treatment, and diminish a person's sense of being fully seen.
Living Life in Color Again

Living Life in Color Again

Depression has a way of rewriting memory and convincing you that this muted version of living is all you're capable of. But after the right treatment, when people start to feel better, they notice it in the little moments. "Color returning" is not perfection or constant happiness. It's just access to your feelings, energy, and ability to connect and care.
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