Comments on: American Psychiatric Association’s DSM 5 draft is now available for review

By: Jayhuck

Jayhuck — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 05:08:53 +0000

Concerned,

When do we get to pathologize the APA

It seems as if you and David already are. Hardly a surprise!

By: Mary

Mary — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:15:23 +0000

Somehow – I think there is money to be made with the changes here.

By: concerned

concerned — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:38:29 +0000

When do we get to pathologize the APA, I think their stance and position on sex addiction and other difficulties that people have to deal with is not only pathetic it is pathological and cause great harm to many people. Perhaps they want the number of people to have to rely on there services to increase in order that they can remain in business. And their attack on religion is equally damaging to many good people.

By: David Blakeselee

David Blakeselee — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:09:28 +0000

It will be interesting to assess the political influence a decidely left leaning (APA) organization who has had a history of pathologizing religion (DSM III) as well as pathologizing the general population (lifetime incidence of mental health at 50%…and growing) has on this new rendition of the DSM.

:).

By: Manuel Mota, M.D.

Manuel Mota, M.D. — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 01:46:41 +0000

My premonition has become a painful reality: The psychiatric establishment, once again, betrayed the best interest of the pediatric patients.

In the name of saving children from been labeled with “adult” illnesses they continue denying the presence of bipolar disorder in preschoolers. First (with DSM-III) they manufactured Oppositional-Defiant Disorder and Conduct Disorder to justify clinical pictures that we could not call mood or anxiety disorders…even if both parents had the same particular disease. Now, these “wise guys” had pulled out of their magic bag TEMPER DYSREGULATION DISORDER “as an alternative to diagnosing children with bipolar disorder.”

Now, in the name of the God they claim to follow, I going to ask this question: How is it that a two-year old can be diagnosed with Leukemia or a brain tumor but not with a bipolar spectrum disorder? How are they supporting this “mental illness shield” conferred by the APA to children?

I invite Dr. David J. Kupfer, DSM-5 Task Force Chair and Dr. Darrel A. Regier, DSM-5 Task Force Vice-Chair to check my website http://www.psychiatricanswers.com and what the parents of children with bipolar disorder are telling to the psychiatrist in denial.

Today, the APA made me feel embarrassed of identifying myself as a psychiatrist.