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If Gambling, Games, and Sex Are Addictive, What Is Addiction?

Stanton Peele | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Dsm-V, Gambling Addiction, Video Game Addiction, Sex Addiction, Charles O'Brien, Dsm 5, Mental Health News, Mental Health, Addiction and Recovery, Dsm, Healthy Living News

DSM 5's announcement that the psychiatric diagnostic manual will, for the first time, call something addictive that doesn't involve substance abuse -- gambling -- has opened the floodgates.

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The DSM 5 Follies, As Told in Its Own Words

Allen Frances | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Psychiatry, Dsm 5, Dsm-V, Dsm-5, Dsm V, Dsm 5 Criticism, Dsm 5 Problems, Science News

Nothing can illustrate how far DSM 5 has gone off track better than the words spoken in its defense by DSM 5 leadership. Here are the 10 most wrong-headed quotations, and I have annotated them with my own thoughts.

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Psychiatric Diagnosis by the People's Choice

Lawrence Diller, M.D. | Posted 04.08.2012

Read More: American Psychiatric Association, Psychiatry, Attention Deficit Disorder, Depression, Asperger's Syndrome, Dsm-Iv, Dsm 4, Dsm Criteria, Dsm Iv, Dsm Diagnosis, Dsm V, DSM IV TR, Dsm, Mental Health, Healthy Living News

The American Psychiatric Association plans to release the newest edition of America's psychiatric bible, the DSM, in 2013. The effort to determine what constitutes normal and abnormal behavior in America is apparently an ongoing process.

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The DSM-5: Will it Work in Clinical Practice?

Lloyd I. Sederer, MD | Posted 04.07.2012

Read More: Dsm 5, Dsm 5 Field Trails, Dsm-5, Dsm 5 Trials, Mental Health, Dsm-5 Field Trials, Dsm-V, Dsm V, Dsm-5 Trials, Healthy Living News

There has been a lot of smoke from the DSM fires. The field trials should help all concerned see through the smoke and into the embers of advancing the complex and continuous process of improving what we know about diagnosis in psychiatry.

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Should Grief Be Treated the Same as Depression?

Michael Stanclift, N.D. | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: American Psychiatric Association, Dsm 5, Grief Depression, Depression, Emotional Depression, Grief, Mental Health, Healthy Living Health News, Apa, Dsm V, Dsm, Grieving, Healthy Living News

The American Psychiatric Association (APA) may soon redefine what we know as grief to depression, if symptoms last more than two weeks.

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Aggrieved Over Grief As A Diagnosis In DSM

Robert David Jaffee | Posted 03.31.2012

Read More: Depression, Grief, Dsm, Dsm 5, Grief Depression, Symptoms of Depression, Dsm-5, Dsm Depression, Grieving Depression, Mental Health, Dsm V, Grief and Loss, Healthy Living News

My concern is that if we add grief, or internet addiction or "Facebook depression" to an already-growing number of diagnoses, we are likely to find that nearly everyone on this planet suffers from mental illness.

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Don't Confuse Grief With Depression

Allen Frances | Posted 03.28.2012

Read More: Overtreatment, Major Depression, Dsm-V, Dsm-Iv, Grief, Overdiagnosis, Dsm 5, Grief Disorder, DSM 5 Grief, DSM Controversy, Dsm-5-Additions, Science News

Grief is the normal and absolutely unavoidable price we must pay for having the capacity to love -- it is most certainly not a disease.

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Why Are Kids Suddenly So Sick?

Allen Frances | Posted 03.21.2012

Read More: Dsm 5, Food and Drug Administration, Drug Companies, Dsm-5, Mental Health, Dsm-V, Children's Health, Dsm V, Dsm Iv, Child Psychiatry, Healthy Living News

Giving a name to difficult problems that are poorly understood provides a kind of false comfort, but the label often doesn't really add to the understanding and may carry risks of its own -- especially unnecessary treatment, stigma and wasted resources.

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Preventive Psychiatry Can Be Bad for Our Health

Allen Frances | Posted 03.20.2012

Read More: Overtreatment, Psychiatric Drugs, Dsm 5, Psychiatric Diagnosis, Prevention, Overdiagnosis, Dsm-5, Mental Health, Dsm V, Dsm-V, Preventive Psychiatry, Healthy Living News

Preventive psychiatry may someday be of significant service in reducing the burden of human suffering -- but only if it can be done really well. And the sad truth is that we don't yet have the necessary tools.

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Revisions to Psychiatry's 'Bible' Have People Crying Overmedication -- But Don't Freak Out Just Yet

Kaitlin Bell Barnett | Posted 03.10.2012

Read More: Mental Illness, Psychiatry, Overmedication, Medication, Dsm, Dsm-Iv, Dsm Criteria, Dsm 4, Mental Health, Dsm Diagnosis, Dsm V, Healthy Living News

For what might strike a lot of people as inside baseball, the debate over the upcoming edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is garnering a lot of media attention.

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The American Psychiatric Association's New Bible: The DSM-5

Lloyd I. Sederer, MD | Posted 11.19.2011

Read More: Mental Health, Healthy Living Health News, Dsm-5 Additions, Dsm-5 Release, Dsm-5 Changes, Dsm-5, Dsm-5 Discussion, Healthy Living Mind, Dsm-V, Healthy Living News

In theory, the DSM-5's new and revised diagnostic conditions will reflect the additional scientific information gathered since the last edition.

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Why We Need It To Succeed

Lloyd I. Sederer, MD | Posted 09.25.2011

Read More: Dsm-V, Dsm 5, Mental Health, Healthy Living Mind, Healthy Living News

The DSM-5 is shorthand for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition. The APA began revising the 4th Edition in 2000 with the goal of releasing the 5th Edition in 2011.

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8 Mental Disorders That May Not Exist In 2013

The Huffington Post | Posted 08.23.2011

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A number of mental disorders may no longer exist in 2013 -- at least not under the names by which they're currently known. Substantial changes have...

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The Insane Plainly Reign in Maine

Cynthia Dill | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Islam, Sharia Law, Dsm-V, Democrats, Republican Party, Maine, Austrian Economics, Politics News

Scratch the surface of Maine and the "political ideology of Islam" lurks. At least it does in the mind of the conscientious resident who recently sent state legislators a copy of Sharia Law for Non-Muslims.

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Is Your Facebook Addiction a Sign of Loneliness?

Lisa Haisha | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Friendship, Social Media, Twitter, Addiction, Psychology, Stanford University, Facebook, Dsm-V, Lonliness, Social Networking, Tweeting, Healthy Living News

One of the problems with social media sites like Facebook is that people feel they have a reason to be addicted because they claim they're doing business.

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Allen Iverson Should Accept This Crisis as a Gift

Michael Burke | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gambling, National Basketball Association, Nba, Addiction, Addiction & Recovery, Dsm-V, Allen Iverson, Compulsive Gambling, Drinking, Los Angeles News

In the next few days and weeks we are going to be titillated with numerous stories of the devastation being suffered by Allen Iverson and his family because of his gambling and drinking.

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Do You Have a Social Media Disorder?

Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 05.25.2011

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As top psychologists debate revisions to the DSM, we offer the following five personality disorders encountered in the real time web, known colloquially as Twitter.

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War Over Addiction: Evaluating The DSM-V

Stanton Peele | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: DSM Task Force, Dsm-Iv, Bipolar Disorder, Dsm-V, Addiction, Hypersexuality Disorder, Binge Eating Disorder, Substance Use Disorder, Stigma, Psychiatric Label, Psychiatric Diagnosis, Addiction & Recovery, Healthy Living News

You've heard about the Drug War? Well there's a war being fought over addiction by the Task Force revising the psychiatric bible in the United States.

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