I think diagnoses can be helpful if they are evidence-based and indicate what sort of interventions might be appropriate. Seems few of the conditions in the DSM are evidence-based. They are consensus-based, ideologically-driven, profit-driven groupings of behaviors and traits with arbitrary thresholds separating normal and abnormal, and usually with no reference to root cause. In my view they are damaging and pathologizing right from the outset, and on top of that provide little or no actionable information.

I count myself lucky not to have been infected by of any these diagnoses, at least nothing more than physicians listing "depression" and "anxiety" as symptoms.