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Is your mental health diagnosis helping you—or helping a billing system?
In this episode of Off Label: Data, Diagnostics, and the Future of Mental Health, Dr. Steve Rondeau takes a hard look at the ICD-10—the globally standardized classification system used to diagnose psychiatric disorders—and makes the case that it’s doing more harm than good. We explore how rigid diagnostic codes reduce complex human experiences to bureaucratic shorthand, distort treatment pathways, and often fail to predict therapeutic response.
You'll hear how diagnostic inflation, categorical oversimplification, and the clinical pressure to “label and bill” have created a system that’s more about conformity than care. From a brain-based perspective, we examine why individualized, neurobiologically informed approaches—like qEEG-guided care—offer a more ethical, precise, and person-centered alternative.
If you're a provider questioning the utility of your diagnostic toolbox, or a patient tired of being defined by a code that doesn’t capture your reality, this episode challenges the psychiatric status quo and explores what a post-diagnostic future might look like.
