News Article - Updates on DSM-5

[vunadiwai]

Thought this may be of interest to some people. I have been diagnosed as Bipolar II but my pdoc has also referred to mixed anxiety disorder in the past.

Crossposted on several comms - apologies if this shows up multiple times in your flist page.

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Australian psychiatrists have welcomed a rare move by a US panel editing the universal diagnostic

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[princesswhore]

I've been following a lot on the DSM-5 process and have been really excited about some changes and disappointed by a few. My boyfriend has generally high-functioning Aspergers and is upset by the autism spectrum changes, as he does have difficulty functioning and it's not just an average amount of "weird" being over-pathologized. Sometimes the DSM can help validate what are real issues that people go through. I wish I'd had my dx when I was in school so I had a short, understandable explanation for why I was screwing up.

There is a comment in that article about how each DSM adds new illnesses, but I think it's worth noting that it also removes ones that should never have been there. It's no longer considered a mental illness to be gay, for example.