Rundown on DSM-V Evolution

[liveonearth]

It's scheduled to come out in May 2013, and this doc (Allen Frances, MD) asks the question: is the APA going to release it because it is needed and helpful and founded for psychiatric treatment? Or because they want the income from the release of a new book?? He has a good grasp on where the system fails and what needs to happen next. He'd like

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[newedition]

Great quote from the article

[liveonearth]

LOL. Binge eating has a zillion etiologies not the least of which is insulin and leptin dysregulation due to poor diet. Psych disorders are inextricably intertwined with metabolic disorders. Such is the life of an organism of complexity. Would life be better as a single celled organism? I think not...

[b_vainamoinen]

I'm not thrilled with grief getting added to the DSM.

What is this going to do to hospice programs who have to keep in touch with the families for 12 months after the death of the patient? Are they going to have to hire licensed counseling staff now to do that? At present - hospice staff who work in bereavement do not have to have any kind of mental health certification. Mainly because the people who are grieving are NOT MENTALLY ILL!

[liveonearth]

Yeah, me neither. What this means is that psychiatrists will have backing for medicating people who are grieving. Up to now it has been OK to let people who've lost a dear one be sad...