Allyson Bontempo, PhD (@acbontempo.bsky.social)

Check out this super well written, well-researched article in the Smithsonian, for which I am grateful to have had the opportunity to be interviewed for: www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

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For Some Women With Serious Physical Ailments, Mental Illness Has Become a Scapegoat Diagnosis Patients with difficult-to-diagnose conditions like endometriosis are often sent home with diagnoses like anxiety or bipolar disorder https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/for-some-women-with-serious-physical-ailments-mental-illness-has-become-a-scapegoat-diagnosis-180986203/