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But it was in DSM-IV. Are all of those people now cured?

• outworlder 5y ago
  No. But isn't it ironic for someone to complain about armchair psychologists and then start talking about a condition that's not even recognized anymore? DSM-5 replaced everything with autism spectrum disorder.
  • chevill 5y ago
    And to elaborate on this the explanation I read stated that with DSM-IV you had a bunch of specific disorders with their respective checklists of symptoms which didn't accurately reflect variations between individuals and the overlapping symptoms. (Since its a spectrum). This led to situations where people didn't check enough boxes to be eligible for certain treatments that might benefit them because they were associated with a slightly different diagnosis than the one they had.
  • stcredzero 5y ago
    No. But isn't it ironic for someone to complain about armchair psychologists and then start talking about a condition that's not even recognized anymore? The way you put it sounded like the thing didn't even exist. Whereas, it was just a name change. If that wasn't deliberately misleading, it might as well have been. Someone who isn't familiar with these issues might have looked things up briefly, then concluded that someone was lying. In my view, intellectual honesty demands taking care not to create such misleading situations, even at the cost of strongly "scoring a point." Especially at that cost!