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The DSM is used by psychiatrists and psychologists and psychological examiners. It is not used by other types of medical doctors because they don't have the training of mental health doctors. This article is misleading as it makes it appear all types of doctors use this. Your family medicine doctor cannot use it. He can refer you to a mental health evaluator but cannot make a diagnosis on his own.

If you don't go to a mental health evaluator, you get no mental health diagnosis from the DSM, now version V. I psychologically evaluated patients and used the DSM of whichever version was the latest. It would be up to me to stick that new label on a patient but just because the label is there, I wouldn't have to use it. And, I wouldn't. Such a label would only apply if it was causing a patient not to be able to live his/her life.

If a patient stayed in bed for six months (some long period of time) because he/she thought he/she was sick, couldn't live his/her life and was found to have NO physical illness requiring total staying in a bed, then that label might apply, however I think it would be due to another mental problem and it would be my job to find out what that was so it could be corrected.

Don't think your family doctor is going to slap this new label on you - he/she can't do it.