This is the heart of it: > Almost all diagnoses mask the role of trauma and adverse events... > The authors conclude that diagnostic labelling represents ‘a d

This is the heart of it: > Almost all diagnoses mask the role of trauma and adverse events... > The authors conclude that diagnostic labelling represents ‘a disingenuous categorical system’. The DSM fails miserably as a manual to alleviate suffering, because it downright ignores the influence of trauma on all but one major diagnosis (acute PTSD). Worse, complex trauma ("cPTSD") aka "developmental trauma" is still not an official diagnosis, which is absurd, given that it is well established in the research that child abuse can severely damage mental health. The whole thing is looking at the problem of mental health from the wrong angle. The so-called epidemic of mental illness will only subside once we ditch the dizzying array of overlapping symptoms, and focus on the root causes. Every single individual seeking professional counsel on mental health should be screened for trauma at intake. There's just no excuse for not doing that given how much trauma impacts outcomes.