Category Archives: DSM

Personality Disorders: Who Can Decide What is Normal?

Personality disorders, mental disorders and mental illnesses are all terms to designate some kind of supposed abnormal behavior that needs to be treated. At least, that is what a psychiatrist would say. But who is to say what is normal and what constitutes a so-called disorder? Continue reading

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An Epidemic of Psychiatric Drugs Not Mental Illness

Just as the polio vaccine pretty much wiped out any further cases of the disease, you would think depression and other mental ailments would disappear when Prozac and other “wonder drugs” came on the market more than twenty years ago. … Continue reading

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DSM: Is it Valid?

The DSM, or Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is published by the American Psychiatric Association. It is THE book used by those in the psychiatric profession to describe classifications and diagnosis of mental illness.   But is the … Continue reading

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Mental Disorders Manual May Be Myth

Three Professional Psychiatrists Speak Out Against the Mental Disorders Manual   In recent years, one hears teenagers casually diagnose their friends’ behaviors with bywords from psychiatry’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM).  Now in its fourth edition, the … Continue reading

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How Can Everyone Have a Mental Illness?

In case you don’t know, there is a book published by the American Psychiatric Association called The Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, otherwise known as the DSM.  It is used by psychiatrists to diagnose mental disorders.  The fifth revision … Continue reading

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Psychiatrists Question Their Own Sanity – The Glass House is Shattering from Within

Leading mental health experts are concerned the new psychiatric bible scheduled for release sometime in 2013 will expose their fraud and bring into the light of day psychiatry’s practice of labeling normal behavior as mental illness and kill once and … Continue reading

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Psychiatrists Bash Upcoming DSM V

As stated in our March 2, 2010 post, DSM V, fifth edition of The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is being worked on by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) for release in 2013.  The new categories and diagnosis being … Continue reading

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DSM V: Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders – 5th Edition

The DSM V, fifth edition of The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is being worked on by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) for release in 2013.  Again, they continue to sit around making up things as they go.  This … Continue reading

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