Depression, and almost all mental disorders, can't even be defined or reliably identified by any diagnosis test, leave alone finding a biological cause. Found

Depression, and almost all mental disorders, can't even be defined or reliably identified by any diagnosis test, leave alone finding a biological cause. Found a book recently on the topic, "Cracked: The Unhappy Truth about Psychiatry" by James Davies, an expert who worked as a clinical psychiatrist, and was himself present at meetings when organizations like the NHS worked on standardizing definitions for mental disorders (DSM and ICD). My notes: * Naming mental disorders is like naming constellations in the sky: the phenomena are real, but finding a pattern is completely subjective and arbitrary. * There is a growing movement of professional psychiatrists calling for the abandonment of the DSM and ICD and other newly created terms for mental disorders. * There is no scientific evidence whatsoever for the existence of ANY of the "mental disorders" described in the DSM or ICD, yet these mental health manuals are taken as bibles in the West. The authors of the manuals themselves are publicly quoted to have said that these manuals are simply subjective guidelines, with absolutely no biologically-identified cause for these "diseases". * Most of these "disorders" are simply describing normal variations in personality found among people at different periods of life. Identifying behavioural patterns and assigning a name to it is a purely subjective matter.