Pathologising everyday behaviour

[Cara]

Had a good laugh about the new 'psychiatrist bible' - DSM 5. Seems everything from a decline in cognitive performance to a kid having a temper tantrum is included.

This may come as unwelcome news to the millions of men who, surveys suggest, think about sex at least once every 20 minutes: you may be suffering from "hypersexual disorder".

It is also likely to irritate the millions of women who feel grumpy at a certain time of the month: you may be labelled with "pre-menstrual dysphoric disorder".

Peter Tyrer, professor of psychiatry at Imperial College London and chair of the working group leading revision of the ICD on personality disorder, said: "The joke about the DSM is that it doubles in size each time it is revised so everyone is pathologised in time. I call hypersexual disorder the Bill Clinton Syndrome. If you are really going to pathologise men who can't stop thinking about sex, that is going to be an awful lot of people. Similarly with pre-menstrual dysphoric disorder – it is likely to affect 50 per cent of women of child-bearing age."

Full article in The Independent: Sex Addiction Sells

 

[Devill]

ROFL

For every human doing they will think up a disorder....

 

[TheHiveMind]

ROFL

For every human doing they will think up a disorder....

Psychiatry - OCD variation that takes the form of creating imaginary disorders.
ICD10 Code: U12.69