I read the comment as implying that they were overly broad and so should not be applied to the larger population outside of a professionals supervision. My cou

I read the comment as implying that they were overly broad and so should not be applied to the larger population outside of a professionals supervision. My counter-argument was that they were properly narrow and could indeed be applied to the general population, though this would not provide definitive diagnoses only prevalence information. I read the OP as saying that these statistics were not representative of the actual underlying mental health phenomena. I believe and asserted that they are.