New Psychiatry Manual, DSM5, Reclassifies Previously Normal Behaviours as Illnesses
Sue Dunlevy, The Daily Telegraph, 18 May 2013
Screaming toddlers could be classified as having a mental illness and people who eat occasional big meals diagnosed with a binge eating disorder under a controversial new manual for psychiatry. The much-maligned DSM5 also reclassifies normal grief as a major depressive illness and labels those who partake in heavy internet use as possibly having a disorder. In fact, half the Australian population could be classified as mentally ill under the DSM5, being released this weekend amid warnings from experts that it is significantly flawed.
Screaming toddlers could be classified as having a mental illness and people who eat occasional big meals diagnosed with a binge eating disorder under a controversial new manual for psychiatry. The much-maligned DSM5 also reclassifies normal grief as a major depressive illness and labels those who partake in heavy internet use as possibly having a disorder. In fact, half the Australian population could be classified as mentally ill under the DSM5, being released this weekend amid warnings from experts that it is significantly flawed.
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