Because everyone thinks they are crazy and that everyone they know is as well. They think that because it’s true.
AlunWeaver on
I had to get a copy. Needed to give my self-diagnosed mental problems some credibility when I drone on about them in front of my soon-to-be-former friends.
plumpjack2022 on
I would like to read about narcissistic personality disorder, because a fat lying narcissist rapist traitor recently ruined my country.
IrrationalNumb3rs on
I guess it’s a sign of the times.
RIPN1995 on
Is this because it was mentioned in the Heard Vs Depp trial?
Buckabuckaw on
Please stop calling it a “bible”, psychiatrist’s or otherwise. The DSM iterations are not meant to be the final word on psychiatric disorders. Each version (this is the 5th major revision, hence DSM-5), is designed to create specific operational criteria to help psychiatric researchers begin to home in on diagnostic categories which, in turn, can lead to more specific and effective treatments.
The whole point of the DSM series is to provide a current *approximation* of psychiatric diagnosis, with the expectation that using the manual will systematically point out *errors* in the current classifications, to lead to further revisions in the next iteration.
The reason this approach is necessary is because human thought and behavior is so enormously complex that it does not fit into neat categories at our current level of knowledge, and so we must use successive approximations to hone our understanding.
End of rant.
muscravageur on
The DSM is always a bestseller. Virtually every doctor, every therapist, every social worker, and everyone who works in mental health care is required to have on. All insurance billing requires a diagnosis from the DSM.
Not only that but sales of the DSM fund the APA. It’s their goldmine and they keep digging.
webauteur on
Well it is a work of fiction.
shank-redemption on
I’m not surprised. I know many people who love to self-diagnose.
MllePerso on
What on earth is surprising about a book mental health professionals are *required to buy for their jobs* being a bestseller?
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Because everyone thinks they are crazy and that everyone they know is as well. They think that because it’s true.
I had to get a copy. Needed to give my self-diagnosed mental problems some credibility when I drone on about them in front of my soon-to-be-former friends.
I would like to read about narcissistic personality disorder, because a fat lying narcissist rapist traitor recently ruined my country.
I guess it’s a sign of the times.
Is this because it was mentioned in the Heard Vs Depp trial?
Please stop calling it a “bible”, psychiatrist’s or otherwise. The DSM iterations are not meant to be the final word on psychiatric disorders. Each version (this is the 5th major revision, hence DSM-5), is designed to create specific operational criteria to help psychiatric researchers begin to home in on diagnostic categories which, in turn, can lead to more specific and effective treatments.
The whole point of the DSM series is to provide a current *approximation* of psychiatric diagnosis, with the expectation that using the manual will systematically point out *errors* in the current classifications, to lead to further revisions in the next iteration.
The reason this approach is necessary is because human thought and behavior is so enormously complex that it does not fit into neat categories at our current level of knowledge, and so we must use successive approximations to hone our understanding.
End of rant.
The DSM is always a bestseller. Virtually every doctor, every therapist, every social worker, and everyone who works in mental health care is required to have on. All insurance billing requires a diagnosis from the DSM.
Not only that but sales of the DSM fund the APA. It’s their goldmine and they keep digging.
Well it is a work of fiction.
I’m not surprised. I know many people who love to self-diagnose.
What on earth is surprising about a book mental health professionals are *required to buy for their jobs* being a bestseller?