I think psychology has the potential to become a hard science but it is still really in its early stage. We can't prove anything, we disagree about everything, we are still going to be changing a lot - looking at DSM-5 with PDs under revision/scrutiny.

Until we have better research/validity methods we'll have to make do. And yea... it makes the mental health profession look/behave inconsistent, which makes the normies question it. Just as long as I don't have a desk near someone who believes depression is just something you deal with and get on with it.

My psychology class (barely made it through the terminology kills me) last semester there was this guy going on about a PTSD sufferer who made something of their life and dealt with it instead of letting it overwhelm them like some do and how admirable that was. It took much of my social skills to refrain from dressing him down. It would have been an effort in futility. I hope it was a requirement for his other major and he's not going with psychology....