Tag: DSM
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The Problem With Labeling Every Condition as a Disease
Medicalizing normal variation expands treatment markets and reshapes identity, but it can also worsen outcomes and obscure structural causes of distress.
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The DSM is a marketing document dressed up as medicine
The DSM presents itself as a scientific manual, but its categories shift with culture, lobbying, and pharma incentives. A skeptical look at psychiatry’s core text.
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Why Mental Health Diagnoses Can Be Too Broad
DSM categories sweep together patients with very different underlying conditions. Here’s why broad mental health diagnoses can blur clinical decision-making.
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We’ve medicalized normal grief
Grief is painful but not pathological. Turning ordinary mourning into a billable disorder helps the system more than the bereaved — and changes how we recover.