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In just two decades, pointing out the pseudoscience of the DSM has gone from being an “extremist slur of radical anti-psychiatrists” to a mainstream proposition from the former chairs of both the DSM-3 and DSM-4 taskforces and the director of NIMH. In addition to the pathologizing of normal behaviors, another explanation for the epidemic — the adverse effects of psychiatric medications — is also evolving from radical to mainstream, thanks primarily to the efforts of Robert Whitaker and his book Anatomy of an Epidemic. While diagnostic expansionism and Big Pharma certainly deserve a lar...

In the spirit of the thinking behind the DSM, I have made a new disorder for those who don't meet criteria for anything else.

The number of people needing mental health services is increasing and there are waitlists of months. What can be done to help people struggling with depression, anxiety and other mental health issues?

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