Excerpt from: The Daily Beast (click for full article)
The fifth edition of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders hits shelves on May 22, and with it, a slew of new mental-disorder diagnoses. Advocates of the DSM-V say recognition of new disorders like hoarding and skin picking will lead to more accessible treatment and greater understanding of these conditions in the psychiatric world. But others say the new diagnoses will only fuel a pharmaceutical industry that already overprescribes, with more than 10 percent of American adults taking antidepressants. From Internet addiction to binge eating, six additions to the “bible” of psychiatry.
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