Psychology is not a hard science, it's not a computer where you can prove what will happen. Therefore when applied by clinics the only way to diagnose is based

Psychology is not a hard science, it's not a computer where you can prove what will happen. Therefore when applied by clinics the only way to diagnose is based off of the patients own words. If you say the right things to mark off DSM5 symptoms, then you get that diagnosis. I don't blame social media for this, while it is true that it has heavily increased knowledge of various real illnesses, and therefore increased the case of false positives - clinics should be able to differentiate between this. That's the point. The professional should be able to properly diagnose, because the patient themselves doesn't know what the problem is or how to treat it. But there in comes the "do no harm" idea. Where we have to do something because if we get it wrong and didn't prescribe pills then the patient may kill themselves or harm others. And conveniently we can point and say "we did it by the book, no liability.". It should be recoined "do harm to everyone equally" for correctness.