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Old Mar 10, 2018, 10:18 PM
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Just a bit of advice, picking up the DSM and trying to figure out stuff yourself is not a bad thing, Franz, but its not a good thing either. It's sort of the psychology behind how all the people who go on WebMD and end up freaking themselves out, you follow me?
Hmm. I don’t think that comparing a website designed for self-diagnosis by an average user, WebMD, can be compared to a text written for psychiatric diagnosis by professionals, the DSM.

I understand your reasoning - no one should rely on self-diagnosis - but the DSM really helps me to understand why I do that which I do and, in that sense, it’s my go-to psychiatric-diagnostic text.

Just my opinion

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