The number of diagnostic categories (diseases) has proliferated with each subsequent edition of the DSM. The first edition had 128 categories, and the most recent, the DSM-5, catalogs 541 diagnoses. Frances, Chair of the DSM-4 effort, has bemoaned the excess of diagnostic labels that increasingly medicalize what he considers “severe variants of normal behavior”, adding that recent increases in the rates of ADHD, bipolar disorder, and ASDs are “market-driven diagnostic fads”. According to him, the DSM-5 will lead to massive over-diagnosis and harmful over-medication:

Except for autism, all the DSM-5 changes loosen diagnosis and threaten to turn our current diagnostic inflation into diagnostic hyperinflation. Painful experience with previous DSMs teaches that if anything in the diagnostic system can be misused and turned into a fad, it will be. Many millions of people with normal grief, gluttony, distractibility, worries, reactions to stress, the temper tantrums of childhood, the forgetting of old age, and “behavioral addictions” will soon be mislabeled as psychiatrically sick and given inappropriate treatment.

People with real psychiatric problems that can be reliably diagnosed and effectively treated are already badly shortchanged. DSM-5 will make this worse by diverting attention and scarce resources away from the really ill and toward people with the everyday problems of life, who will be harmed, not helped, when they are mislabeled as mentally ill.

وعلي هاي مال الواحد يسويها لافتة أو ينشرها بإعلان تلفزيوني

If psychiatric drugs work as miraculously as they're often claimed to be, then why are mental illnesses increasing rather than decreasing?

Infectious diseases decreased dramatically after the antibiotics discovery; shouldn't the same happen with mental illnesses?

بحث عظيم، بس خربدينه ما يخلص

Approximately 50% of all genes in the human genome are expressed in the brain.

— Mad Men

"It's not medicine"😂

Society has always been hostile to philosophers and the so-called "free thinkers" not because society is deliberately against wisdom and anti-truth, but simply because true thinking is inherently destructive; it is skeptical towards everything (including society's most cherished values). By extension, those who do serious thinking—thinkers—are usually destructive agents.

Their persecution, therefore, is not due to some noble effort of truth-seekers against the adamantly ignorant. It is much more simple, and much less noble.

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It is intellectuals who undermine out sacred values and principles.
It is poets (a stand-in for the creative) who bestow upon us new values.

The reason why Succession (and Connor Roy's attempt at politics) is not considered a comedy, is that it represents the real world too much and too uncannily.
It's too absurd, which is why it's too real.

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