The manual keeps on growing as more disorders are added. When it was first printed in 1952 it has 112 disorders which had grown to 374 covering 886 pages.
It's a bull market in disorders: each new disorder brings in additional consultation/treatment dollars.
Exactly. It’s going to be a booming business when we have Nationalized Health Care!
Maybe we could get ourselves classified as having “conservative” mental disorder, caused by “prolonged exposure to loony left excesses”.
You can thank the chintzy reimbursement schedule that most insurance companies provide, if at all. A lot of stress-induced mental disorders are treated as preexisting conditions, and its an uphill battle to convince them that it's not.
Personally, I don't like coming up with all kinds of new and different labels for disorders that are not quantitatively different in their effects on the patient.
On the flip side, however, I also dislike "umbrella diagnoses" that lumps every instance of childhood psychosocial dysfunction as ADHD or every instance of social anxiety as Autism.
For that matter, how many residual stress disorders are really PTSD?
It's almost like a poker game between providers and insurance companies:
"OK, I'll see your OCD and raise you one MPD!"
"Call."
"I've got a full house: three narcissists and two anal retentives."
"I've got four Queens and a Transgender. I win"
“It’s a bull market in disorders: each new disorder brings in additional consultation/treatment dollars.”
That’s the least they hope to achieve - that everyone must be treated for something. Then if they can also promote even more of their pc agendas so much the better.
They can’t even cure the bi polar, psychotic etc., yet they want control over even more minds?