Psychiatry doesn’t deserve its status

Psychiatrists want to be viewed on a par with medical professionals but their practice of redefining life’s problems as so-called ‘mental disorders’ has resulted in them and their profession being held up to ridicule.

A new edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is due for release this year. New ‘disorders’ that have been manufactured include staying on the internet too long, which in psych–speak comes out as ‘Internet Use Disorder’. Then there’s feeling self-conscious or awkward in social situations, which has been labelled as ‘Social Anxiety Disorder’; while the ‘terrible twos’, has been redefined by psychiatric ‘experts’ as ‘Temper Dysregulation Disorder’.

These scientific-sounding but meaningless headings are being used to fuel the profit-driven psychiatric industry. Even psychiatrists, some of them at the highest levels of psychiatric leadership, will admit when pressed, that it’s not science.