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Originally Posted by Mathgod
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passiv...ality_disorder
The language there reveals some striking biases from the people who write this stuff. Admittedly, it's not in DSM5, but it's worrying that it was ever in the DSM.
This thread has kinda been derailed. Depression/DSM discussion should probably go in a separate thread.
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when the DSM started (1958) the language was pretty much whatever doctors thought, it was unclear biased, it represented a profession that locked people up because they were different, but the whole point of the DSM was to change that and it has, with every new edition the indicators have become clearer, less driven by opinion and massively driven by observable behaviour, I dont always like the DSM but it has made the field accountable to society in a way it wasnt before, it is no longer an individual doctors opinion but a definable set of behaviours that diagnoses a patient