Your unscientific OPINION shows you have no clue what you're talking about.
The DSM was created to give specific criteria for mental disorders would be repeatable with a level of certainty. For example, major depressive disorder requires five out of nine be present for at least two weeks: depressed mood, sleep (insomnia or hypersomnia), appetite (best seen in weight changes), interest, energy, excessive feelings of guilt, concentration, psychomotor (agitation or retardation), and suicidal ideation. It is serious - they're at increased risk of suicide! The blossoming of the number of disorders has more to do with drawing distinctions between subsets, like bipolar disorder I and II, because the specific diagnoses can have different prognoses and treatments.
Psychiatry has to do with helping people have insight into their condition to help them do something about it, not to avoid taking responsibility for it.
Well snippy, I obviously know way more about the scientific method than you ever will.
In my world, unless I can replicate results 100% of the time there is no scientific certainty upon which anyone depend. You seem to be in the gloBULL Warming camp where you can adjust the criteria to fit the conclusion.
If the physco community is allowed to write their own low standards then they can claim certainty where none exists. How wonderful. Sort of how teachers avoid attempts to rate their performance.
If you had reading skills and not just false opinions you would have seen I acknowledge there were some valid conditions but the “lets make it a medical condition” crowd HAS corrupted this shakey science even further by giving people an excuse for bad behavior.
WANT PROOF and not just OPINION? If you will recall sometime, midsummer of 2011 the fake science community wanted to “Rename”, “Reclassify” various acts of pedophilia so as to REMOVE THE STIGMA from these acts. WELL HOT SHOT tell us all how this is not removing responsibility from ones actions! These charlatans are dangerous and their pseudo profession is in desperate need of oversight.