tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361358365193630538.post4793490415114406981..comments2024-03-20T19:17:02.285-07:00Comments on IN THE NEWS: Despondex: Is psych mania overreaching?Karen Franklin, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01032855743077403199noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361358365193630538.post-37775995677662701712017-09-19T13:16:36.264-07:002017-09-19T13:16:36.264-07:00There's a label for everything... Too sad->...There's a label for everything... Too sad->disorder, too active->disorder, being a loner->disorder, feeling crappy before having period->disorder, being a nonconformist->disorder... And now being happy is a disorder too..? Well i'm not surprised. At all.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2361358365193630538.post-62550087594995313842009-06-23T08:07:56.665-07:002009-06-23T08:07:56.665-07:00A good post, but one thing you don't mention i...A good post, but one thing you don't mention is that the problem is worse in the US than elsewhere. For example, "childhood bipolar" is not a common diagnosis in the UK, and indeed I've never met a British psychiatrist who would be willing to make such a diagnosis except once in a blue moon (Surely it really does happen... rarely.)<br /><br />I don't know about the non-English speaking world but I suspect that the same thing holds.<br /><br />Interestingly, if you go back 40 years, there was much debate over the fact that "schizophrenia" was diagnosed much more often in the US than elsewhere. This was one of the reasons why the DSM was created - in order to try to abolish "national differences" in psychiatric diagnosis.<br /><br />But ironically, <a href="http://neuroskeptic.blogspot.com/2009/05/questioning-one-in-four-part-1.html" rel="nofollow">now we have a DSM-IV which defines up to 50% of people as mentally ill</a>. (And I don't think it's a coincidence that DSM-IV is an American product.)Neuroskeptichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06647064768789308157noreply@blogger.com