> This seems like a problem with the APA. Why would they categorize around symptoms? Because the APA is well aware that for many if not most psychiatric illnes

> This seems like a problem with the APA. Why would they categorize around symptoms? Because the APA is well aware that for many if not most psychiatric illnesses they are at the “fever” level of specificity in diagnosis, not “malaria” or “influenza”. But they have treatments that work for fever and very limited insight into the etiology of the diseases they work with. > The same symptoms can have different root causes and would then require different treatments. So doesn't it make sense to categorize around root causes? If they could they would. I’m sure there are examples of where a single psychiatric illnesses’ etiology has been uncovered and then they’ve broken it out into its own thing, and recommended the specific treatment for it that reliably works.