i don't really disagree with you, but it seems to me that the problem is that there are good doctors and crappy doctors. DSM-V seems to be a side-issue; it's just a tool. arguing about it seems to be the psychiatric equivalent of criticising programming languages...
(i got a second opinion from someone who spent much more time talking with me, understanding what was happening, and discussing possibilities. he used DSM-V as a framework that allowed him to structure things. that was all. he was awesome and i was happy with his decision. and that's because he was a good doctor, not because of DSM-V. but as a good doctor, he wasn't discarding a useful tool for "religious reasons")
[edit: all the above is necessarily simplified; i now feel a bit guilty in portraying the first doctor so negatively. there's clearly factors like client-doctor "fit" involved, too.]
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i don't really disagree with you, but it seems to me that the problem is that there are good doctors and crappy doctors. DSM-V seems to be a side-issue; it's just a tool. arguing about it seems to be the psychiatric equivalent of criticising programming languages...
(i got a second opinion from someone who spent much more time talking with me, understanding what was happening, and discussing possibilities. he used DSM-V as a framework that allowed him to structure things. that was all. he was awesome and i was happy with his decision. and that's because he was a good doctor, not because of DSM-V. but as a good doctor, he wasn't discarding a useful tool for "religious reasons")
[edit: all the above is necessarily simplified; i now feel a bit guilty in portraying the first doctor so negatively. there's clearly factors like client-doctor "fit" involved, too.]