Proposed DSM-V Changes for 2012

[uberta]

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[marikunin]

UGHHH And yet again the psychology/psychiatry community as a whole disappoints me. I couldn't see the chart very clearly on my phone but your comments gave me the basic gist of what was going on. The problem is that the
psychology books are all written by so called "normal" people that have no idea what its like to actually experience the things they claim to be experts in, and are thus detached.

[uberta]

As evidenced by what equates severity in the eyes of those who wrote this: external things. Things that cause them the most discomfort, not things that always or necessarily cause the actually affected people the most discomfort. That is pretty damn scary.

And the gray areas are stupid as hell! Would a very successful professor very obsessed about what he studies who talks about almost nothing but what he studies be considered less able to function than someone who has no passions or routines yet cannot put together a coherent sentence in spoken or written word? I hate to categorize, but if you're going to categorize, you don't do it this way!

[marikunin]

I know. Even my boyfriend-who is a multiple and an NT-thought this was dumb!

[moosmiles]

That's so horrible! People/doctors are so full of bullshit these days. You can't just categorize people.

[uberta]

Well, diagnoses themselves do categorize people, but I understand what you're saying.

[moosmiles]

Yeah, I'm glad you get what I mean. I definitely phrased it wrong. It's hard to peg a person into certain points of a diagnosis because aren't they always changing? I mean, someone can change where they're at on that bs of a "scale".

[uberta]

EXACTLY. People change from day to day because every day is different, and people certainly change over years! I think having to constantly update this kind of scale to access pretty much any official accommodations would be a huge fucking waste of money, which is probably a goal here. ("Whoo! Fucking waste money!")

[klgaffney]

.....yeah. i can cycle thru 1-3 on any given DAY. (idiots.)

[uberta]

Exactamente.

[belledewinter]

I guess it's easier for them to just divide than to look at each particular case. :/ And I say that as a Psychology student, so yeah. Shame on us all.