the dsm, the so-called sight bible, gets an overhaul and could mean big changes for patients and doctorslike. first, a look under the microscope. >> i don't want to be fat for the rest of my life. i've got diabetes. >> sleep apnea. >> high blood pressure. >> i get dizzy when i get up. >> everything is hurting now. >> you just saw a clip there from the weight of the nation. it's a four-part film from our sister network, hbo, and all of us are under the microscope this morning. our habits, our behavior, our country. this film is part of an unprecedented push by doctors and government health officials, and in part what's driving it this week, we have new numbers, a projection by the year 203042% of the u.s. population would be obese, not just overweight, but obese. now, some sort of twisted way, this could count as good news. the last prediction four years ago was that 51% of us would be obese. of course, none of this is still remotely good enough. here to talk about it from hbo, john hoffman, the economictive producer of "the weight of the nation." you have covered a lot of ground. it's fo

. >>> big changes coming to the skres handbook that's known as the dsm. it defines what is and what isn't a mental disorder. it has big implications for things like insurance and also who gets treated with medication, things like that. the final revised handbook comes out next year, and that's 19 years after the last update. it's -- as i said, it's a pretty big thing in medicine, and a question people are asking is how does it impact us? joining from washington is psychiatrist dr. sally. she electric toors at yale university and also a resident scholar at the american enterprise institute. welcome back to the show. >> thank you very much. >> you know, the one thing i hear more than ever nowadays is that there is a label for everything, and it's too many labels, too many treatments as a result. just from the 30,000 foot level for a second, the changes that are happening, is that going to make that perceived problem even worse? >> well, it is true that every year it's been -- every time it's been revised the dsm was first issued in 1952. we're now going int

this is all because of these new guidelines in the dsm.ible of psychiatry so changes say anyone -- satisfies two or more like drinking more than you intended, developing a higher tolerance, spending a long time recovering from a hangover could land you with an "alcohol use disorder," some of the new language and eliminates the distinction between abuse and dependence. bob forest is a drug counselor and bob, good to see you again. i have to be just totally transparent sitting around in our executive producer's office all thinking of our college memories and wondering of all that we might have taken in back in the day and people watching this morning wondering under the new guidelines are we alcoholics or were we? >> yeah, a lot of people are talking about this and it's just rumored the dsm 5, i've been hearing it's been coming out and new diagnosis of alcoholism and trying to address early stages of what's to come, right? one argument, it's going to label a lot of people alcoholic. on the other hand an argument is more people become educate

the dsm, the so-called sight bible, gets an overhaul and

understand what the big deal is i think the idea is psychiatrists were trying to add it to the new dsming it further study. >> glad to be updated. >> i sense some sarcasm. vicious sarcasm. >> i wouldn't say vicious. >> gaff -- gavin, do you not think alcoholism was a tease? >> i don't think drug addiction or alcoholism is a disease. >> even though they found that people are genetically pre predisposed to be it? >> i am genetically pre disposed to alcoholism, but i manage to hold it back a little bit. >> you manage? >> you weren't managing well during the commercial break. >> it is one of the facts that we all know is true. >> i totally disagree with you on this. >> first grader suspended for sexual harassment. gavin, you made a great point on this, but the school is actually making it sexual. can we add the parents on the list of people not acquitting themselves well? the kid got in trouble for doing the same thing, but it takes until the second time where the mom says "i guess i should tell him -- what this really means so he doesn't say it again. jay but i have kids and i said things

guidelines are included in a revision of the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, or dsmnt. it's the nation's arbiter of mental illness, the so-called psychiatric bible. there are two ways of categorizing medical problems. there's substance abuse. that refers to a short term problem that includes binge drinking in college, and something called substance dependence, meaning a long-term problem like alcoholism. under the new guidelines, only one diagnosis for addiction, to varying degrees, mild, moderate, or severe. doctors are adding to the list of symptoms of addiction while at the same time reducing the number of symptoms needed for a diagnosis, which could mean millions more people could be labeled addicts even without picking up another drink. what's more, for the first time, the manual would also include gambling as an addiction and could include a category called behavioral addiction, which is so broad that some doctors fear that just about anyone could be labeled an addict in any category, whether it's shopping or sex, internet or video games. why is this all so imp

before i wrote this book, i did research on the dsm in the backyard idea. whether there is anyone thinking of ways getting around that. i ran into some interesting research. in europe they had a lot of solar and wind development and ways to get around this problem. a lot of events that coming down to having community participated in these objects rather than having problems. if you build a wind farm you have to offer the community of the persons whose property built on a 20% stake in the wind farm. suddenly nimby is then disappears. and i think that is a really great idea. i have no idea what it take to get something like that implemented in the u.s. because it's really different from how we traditionally thought about infrastructure development. the idea of this interact a participatory infrastructure development is really, really different and you end up running into institutional inertia like we've never done that way, if we don't want to because change is scary. it's almost nimby is some as opposed to on the part of individuals. i think there's a lot of

he also appears to correspond to the dsm diagnosis for narcissistic personality disorder.oing to read you a few of them. tends to exaggerate his own importance, achievements and talents. imagines unrealistic fantasies of success, beauty, power and intelligence. trouble keeping healthy relationships. and sets unrealistic goals. do you think, sir, that newt gingrich has narcissistic personality disorder. >> i'm sorry. i thought you were about newt gingrich. i thought you were talking about barack obama. >> you've worked for mr. gingrich forle, many years. >> and i hnlt worked for barack obama. >> that's why i wouldn't address that question to you if i was asking it concerning the president. specifically, just for clarity. does newt gingrich have narcissistic personality disorder? >> no. i've known him for over a decade on a personal level. he is a very gentle russ person. he is actually in person, not a confrontational person. he is very inclusive. he includes a lot of people in his discussions and deliberations. i found him to be very open to ideas, suggestions, conversatio

the liberal christian tradition runs back to thomas jefferson and unitary ascent and dsm.e prosperity tradition is as old as alexis de tocqueville and new as for trinity broadcasting network. the gospel of sÃo paulo and therapeutic religion and so on. i think in many ways amerson is one of the crucial forefathers of elizabeth gilbert and eat pray love, which is one of the books i talk about it right. so what is new is that these heresies really. what is new is the weakness of the institutional small orthodox, historically rooted krishan response. it is not so much that we didn't have heretics and american life before. they haven't had the field to themselves they think as completely as they have over the last -- increasingly over the last four or five decades. the first half of the book tries to tell the story of how this came to pass. and it begins because, you know, every book needs to be gaining some lost arcadia to be summoned up where will be judged in found wanting. it begins with the postwar revival, the period after world war ii, when american churches were full or

the wind dsm doesn't help. the -- definitely doesn't help. the trees are expected to go up later this week as we get some warmer temperatures. there's our system. well, it's gone now. it cool us down over the weekend. brought snow up in the sierras and thunderstorms. cool numbers all the way down to southern california. by the way on the flip side of that, chicago yesterday was 97 degrees. the warmest temperature ever so early in the season. rockford, illinois was 99. i mean wow. but for us it's a cool pattern. you expect that with a system hanging out here but as it leaves, high pressure is trying to nose in but there's one more wrinkle here that has to keep us on the cool side for another day. then warmer weather tuesday, wednesday and thursday. 40s, upper 40s, low to mid-50s for many under mostly cloudy skies. there are a few breaks in there. but high pressure is there after just that little guy goes through. i know it's not much but it keeps the westerly breeze going. 50s, 60s and 70s. no 80s. 80s would be in the orange. don't see any. i