The APA and DSM-V will be credible resources when anybody in the entire institution of psychiatry manages to reliably correct a single psychiatric disorder they

The APA and DSM-V will be credible resources when anybody in the entire institution of psychiatry manages to reliably correct a single psychiatric disorder they've identified. CBT is just dog training applied to humans. Beyond that neat little trick they're just a pill-pushing standards committee. Where they don't succeed, or get taken for suckers too many times, they take to reclassifying disorders to pave over their failures. You don't need to have corrected multiple personality disorder or Munchausen syndrome when you can quietly rename them and obfuscate just how often you get it catastrophically wrong. When your failures end up committing suicide, they won't be testifying against you later. That they're denying excessive internet use outs them as either incompetent-- or complicit. FAANG hires psychologists to help in algorithm design to engineer these specific ends. You can't identify gambling addiction is a problem while your own people are the ones consulting on development of gambling algorithms. That would be unethical, and look very bad for you. #mentalhealthawareness! We won't acknowledge sex addiction as real, but we're totally qualified to treat it! Notice how doctors quietly stopped advocating for circumcision of all male infants. When we look at what they've been recommending for generations--and their rationalizations--it makes them look like savages ("They don't feel the pain! They don't remember the pain! Women prefer it! It prevents HIV, maybe! You don't speak English? No problem, just sign here."). They have no skin in the game (and now, neither do you) beyond adding an additional line item to mom's invoice. (I'm not anti-medicine, just disillusioned in how little these institutions ever acknowledge wrongdoing or complicity.)