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Old Apr 27, 2015, 04:10 PM
BudFox BudFox is offline
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If you study the history of psychiatry, mental disorders, and the DSM you might question whether any of these diagnoses even have any validity. Many will point out that most mental illness labels have little or no factual basis.

I understand that insurance companies and other institutions require them, but I consider their use and misuse to be a dangerous thing. Once a professional hits you with one, who knows what sort of internal changes result, as you start to believe you have some disorder.

Again, check the history of psychiatry and the DSM and see how boundaries for what is "normal" vs "abnormal" were progressively and even arbitrarily widened to bring more people into the mental illness camp and to sell more drugs.
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