DSM-V: the New Way to Mental Health - Comments

Besides, the NHS and BUPA (British health companies) would agree, as would Mind and IAPT then the argument seems more valid. So, thus everything really should be listed as psychological or simply physiological.

@ This.Useless.Heart.
Psychology is certainly hard.... I just think the book is flawed, as were all the DSM's before (The DSM I and II for example listed homosexuality as a mental health problem - thankfully that has been taken out)

@ dru vs. slut shaming
As far as Gender Identity Disorder goes, I would argue for it being a combination of both Psychiatric and Physiological as there are grounds for a biological cause, however I dont think you can truly have a just physiological problem and as someone suffering from a plathora of physiological problems and suffering psychological impacts as a result and knowing many in the same situation, my argument seems valid.

All I really know is they changed the autistic spectrum so that Asperger's syndrome is no longer included (which I don't understand personally.) Other than that, I haven't heard of that much change. However, the schizophrenia thing mentioned in this article sounds troubling. It doesn't belong in the same realm as things like conduct disorders; it is not a behavioral disorder. I dunno. Psychology is hard.

@ Lyndon Lockwood
Well, they need to update medical books regularly, I understand. There were problems in the DSM-IIII, like Gender Identity Disorder.

@ dru vs. slut shaming
Meh, I just really disliked the DSM V... The DSM IV had it all covered. Why they had to revise an already complicated and tedious book and make it worse than it was I dont know... Seems pointless

I like that Gender Identity Disorder isn't a disorder, but does it make it harder for trans* people to have things covered by insurance now?

Autism spectral whatever is weird, too.

I felt odd when this book came out.