To be fair, it's mostly an attempt to classify and not "invent." A large part of this is trying to understand things that genuinely bother people, e.g. visual

To be fair, it's mostly an attempt to classify and not "invent." A large part of this is trying to understand things that genuinely bother people, e.g. visual and auditory hallucinations, anxiety, suicidal thoughts. Why wouldn't you want some naming convention so that clinicians can have a conversation about it? But of course there are abuses as well, like your example of homosexuality, though it don't think that's the same as something like schizophrenia, which is a horrible experience regardless of what society calls it.