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How is Charles Bonnet Syndrome diagnosed?
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How is Charles Bonnet Syndrome diagnosed?

This video addresses the professionals who can help provide a diagnosis for Charles Bonnet Syndrome. They are not limited to general practitioners, psychiatrist, and ophthalmologists, however, work is needed to raise awareness for more health care practitioners to diagnose this condition.

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Finding a diagnosis is not terribly easy. An ophthalmologist should be able to diagnose you, a psychiatrist of course but you don't always want to go down that route, an optometrist and actually your GP. Unfortunately there aren't enough healthcare professionals who do understand Charles Bonnet syndrome but as it now has its own coding in ICD 11 which is the World Health Organization's taxonomy of diseases and conditions, I hope that very soon there will be many more people who can help to diagnose you. But start with your GP or ophthalmologist and take it from there. Medication is available and i will talk about that in a moment

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