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gloaming, your post is spot on in assessing DSM being a political product, latest darling "syndrome" or "disorder" and the psychology/psychiatric community as a whole.
After 60+ years of dealing with them, I have found exactly two psychiatrists that truly gave a damn. One left practicing at the VA due to VA mismanagement and the other is at the VA and fixed my insomnia, anxiety and depression after 65 years of it.
He got the drugs right and the diagnosis - finally. I think the right drugs, the right doctor and support staff, and the right amount of time and space is the "cure" for environmentally caused psychiatric disorders.
Few people know the difference between a personality disorder, an organic brain disorder and a psychiatric disorder, a personality disorder or a mental health condition and a behavior problem. This has create so much stigma, anyone with any brain issue is stigmatized.