was imbedded with psychiatrists as they debated the new edition of the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders the d.s. and five all along it's been clear that the d.s.m. is such a work of fiction it's the way that psychiatrists have of saying if if there are mental disorders if they exist in nature the ways illnesses like diabetes exist then these are what they are changing the way we understand ourselves is intimately related to the development of the diagnostic and statistical manual the d.s.m. is often referred to as the bible of psychiatric disorders it is the quintessential diagnostic instrument over four hundred thousand mental health professionals in the united states use the d.s.m. and in order to get third party reimbursement one has to have a d.s.m. diagnosis so the d.s.m. is extremely instrumental in two thousand and five two respected academics lisa kos grove of you must boston and sheldon crim ski of tufts released their investigation into conflicts of interest between d.s.m. four panel members and the pharmaceutical industry i think the data really speak for themselves

was imbedded with psychiatrists as they debated the new edition of the diagnostic and statistical manual of mentaldisorders the d.s. and five all along it's been clear that the d.s.m. is such a work of fiction it's the way that psychiatrists have of saying if if there are mental disorders if they exist in nature the ways illnesses like diabetes exist then these are what they are changing the way we understand ourselves is intimately related to the development of the diagnostic and statistical manual the d.s.m. is often referred to as the bible of psychiatric disorders it is the quintessential diagnostic instrument over four hundred thousand mental health professionals in the united states use the d.s.m. and in order to get third party reimbursement one has to have a d.s.m. diagnosis so the d.s.m. is extremely instrumental in two thousand and five two respected academics lisa kos grove of you must boston and sheldon crim ski of tufts released their investigation into conflicts of interest between d.s.m. four panel members and the pharmaceutical industry i think the data really speak for themselves

diagnoses in some of the mental health books about trends identity since the 70s, 1973 if i remember right. the big book of mental health disorders called diagnostic and statistical manual, that is what therapists use to diagnose people and say you have depression, anxiety, whatever. there have been diagnoses in that book since then. if there is a diagnosis in the book of mental illness, how do you say trans is not a mental illness? people use that as an argument. there has been pushed back about that ever since certainly the 90s, get use to it which i think of as we are here, trans and gender queer, get used to it. there has been pushed back about that for a long time. now it is still in the dsm but listed as gender dysphoria meaning discomfort with your gender, not gender identity disorder. even just that changing of the language changes how people can change that. i have known people who came to me or my peers, they are ready to transition. they don't need three months, six months a year of therapy, they know who they are. that is the history behind that myth. when somebody says to you you think you are trans, we got to get you a therapist and figure this out. not ne