by HesDeltanCaptain » Tue Jun 11, 2013 8:55 am
Until we get Star Trek medical tricorders that can diagnose mental disorders objectively, psychiatry is reliant upon the suffer accurately relating symptomology to the psychiatrist and the psychiatrist matching the symptoms to an illness. Further muddied by the fact that so long as healthcare is a for-profit enterprise, the psychiatrists have a vested interest in finding something wrong or they don't get paid. Until the money motive is removed from the equation, diagnosis will be highly suspect.
As with the latest illness of sexual addiction. Not I think coincidental most antidepressants destroy libido. So since we can now be sexually addicted, but a treatment already exists, what better way to ensure continued customers than inventing a new condition we have drugs to treat already. Never hear about new conditions that have no treatments, it's always something that can, for a price, be remedied.
"I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I pretended to be." - Me.