I agree with you for the most part. There are people with severe, debilitating conditions that may require medical intervention. There are many, many more that

I agree with you for the most part. There are people with severe, debilitating conditions that may require medical intervention. There are many, many more that have been labeled due to loose diagnosing guidelines to have a psychiatric disorder. A psychiatrist might just notice that your affect is slightly off, and label you with schizoaffective disorder, which is pretty well known as the diagnosis you give when you can't really put your finger on what's wrong, and yet they still treat medically. How many people diagnosed with MDD or hypomania, do you think, genuinely deserve treatment with muddy medications? How many of them do you think may have other rectifiable issues that are leading to their disposition? Psychiatrists tend to overlook identifying those issues, and jump to asking the questions needed to diagnose a disease as per the DSM-IV.