And Aspergers will be split from autism. You win some. You lose some.

All_Farked_Up: So being a nerd is a disease now?

Has been for a while, ever since WebMD and other sites made it possible to self diagnose shyness, social ineptitude, and intelligence as "high functioning autism", much to the detriment of people that have an actual diagnosis.

It's quite the cult these days. It's part of the reason they are considering narrowing the definition of autism, the proliferation and explosion of diagnoses.

I just wish they'd narrow the depression criteria too.

Hug me till you drug me honey,
Kiss me till I'm in a coma.
Hug me honey, snuggly bunny,
Love is as good as soma.

/and Tiamat's version can be their jingle!

Oh my Ford! So they may finally approve Soma?

/Half a gramme for a half-holiday

This is one of the reasons I hate the psychiatric field in general. When I was in college I was diagnosed chronically depressed and put on a whole buttload of medications to make me feel better. Of course it couldn't have been because my boyfriend of four years cheated and dumped me, that I was 200 miles away from my family, that I had no friends because controlling boyfriend would never let me out of his sight, or the fact all I really needed to be told is "Quit farking whining and grow up already." Nope, chronically depressed because sadness and anger of ANY kind is a horrible negative emotion that humans do not need and luckily we can control those with medication.

Medication didn't work. It either made me more sad or so overly manic I would be awake for days (but luckily they have Ambien for that side effect). By the time I told them to fark off I was on Effexor maximum dose once a day, Wellbutrin twice a day, and Ambien. Oh and daily counseling from a shiatty counselor who wanted to blame my mom for all my woes in life. I love my mom and when the counselor said she was to blame I retaliated. Quit all my meds, quit counseling, decided to quit blaming other people for my problems, moved back to my hometown where I had a support system, and moved on with my life. Sure I have some days where I'm sad or angry, but guess what? Those are NATURAL emotions and okay to have as long as you don't take that out on other people. The longest I've been "depressed" since I quit being told I was has been three days...and then I once again kick myself in the ass, get over or fix my problem, and move on.

It has been 6 years since I walked away and I've never once felt the need for one-on-one counseling. I did go to premartial counseling with my husband, but it was pretty pointless since everything she made us talk about we had already discussed privately at length (kids, money, extended family, boundaries, etc.). Fark psychologists/psychiatrists.

Came here to mention booze. Glad to see we're done in one. And two.

DSM-V takes some getting used to. My biggest problem with it is that it renames and reclassifies so much with the personality disorders that people who have real problems are going to decide they don't have a problem and never did, that psychiatrists now "admit" or "found out" that their alleged problem "never existed."

For one thing, in cutting the personality disorder diagnosis list down to four, it rolls narcissism and sociopathy both into psychopathy. It hasn't actually changed them, just renamed them, which is fine, if you don't think the clinical differences between a narcissist and sociopath are particularly important. But it also means if you are a batshiat nuts narcissist, you just might fall through the cracks and not meet the criteria of any of the four remaining personality disorder diagnoses even though your personality "difference" is having a profound effect on your life in a way that is bound to catastrophically catch up with you eventually.

I understand what DSM-V was trying to do. I think they took their pet theories of personality and mental illness and tried to make the clinical picture fit, rather than taking the clinical picture and trying to best describe observed pathology with an aim towards guiding treatment.

Not a fan.