> Does it really help to know exactly what category you fit in? I guess it would to help get the right meds.

well... it would only help you get the right meds if medications were specific to diagnostic categories rather than symptoms. unfortunately, meds, in the majority of cases, aren't diagnosis specific so much as symptom specific.

but then you add in to the picture how symptoms can be a matter of degree...

and you add in to that picture how much of a placebo affect there is compared to other active substances...

and psychiatry ain't lookin like so much of a medical science after all ;-)