Mislabeling Medical Illness As Mental Disorder: The Eleventh DSM-5 Mistake
I wish I could read all of the "DSM-5 Mistakes" articles and I also wish I could go
through this article and counter every point- but it really makes my
head hurt.
The article he's quoting is a bit older:
Somatic Symptom Disorder could capture millions more under mental health diagnosis
And quite a bit better. You should read it. Narcolepsy is considered a somatic disorder.
The problem is they both still accept the validity of the psychosomatic assumption in certain circumstances and totally miss the fact that ALL psychiatric disorders are Medical Illnesses. Period.
In psychology, "medically unexplained" equals "whatever we decide".
Mind Melting.
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- I obsess about obsession because it seems like the best use of the pathology.
Not that I really have any choice...
I believe that the majority of mental illness is secondary symptoms of common chronic infections. I was a medical librarian, and now I just pretty much constantly research sleep disorders, depression, mania and dementia. This is where I collect my accumulating hypotheses and try to document the atrocities occurring daily in the Infection Industrial Complex.
My goal is not to convince you that my ideas are right, but to show you there is more than one way to interpret scientific data.
Update:
After fifteen years of this, I finally think I am right.
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