Psychiatric negligence

Psychiatric negligence. Our client sought psychiatric treatment for what she believed was depression. The psychiatrist diagnosed bipolar disorder, and prescribed an array of medications in increasingly powerful doses, and ordered electroconvulsive therapy. Our client became agitated, depressed, and suicidal, and experienced memory loss.

Our expert concluded that the woman had been incorrectly diagnosed and overmedicated, and that the correct diagnosis was attention deficit disorder, treatable with minimal medication and counseling that would not have resulted in disability.