We cannot overemphasize the important of differential diagnosis in evaluation of physical and mental health. This article clearly describes an instances of misdiagnosis. We hope you find this informative during the mosquito season.... Lyme disease can masquerade as a host of psychiatric ills, confounding doctors and driving patients to question their very sanity. By: Pamela Weintraub 1993, I spread a map across the living room of our apartment in Forest Hills, Queens, and marked a bull's-eye at Grand Central Station, where trains come in from the 'burbs. I drew a 50-mile radius around the mark, and spent the next three months searching, with my husband, Mark, for a house. We sought top-rated schools for our two boys, proximity to a train en route to Manhattan, and an ample yard. As chance would have it, we ended our hunt at the most devastatingly beautiful spot, a winding country road abutting a spruce forest in the tony suburban hamlet of Chappaqua, in Westchester County, New...