The most important book in the psych world is the DSM, which stands for Diagnostic and Statistical Manual and which contains all the diagnoses insurance companies need to judge you. Not many people own a copy. Maybe because a print version will run you $8,000! I think it’s actually around $600, but that’s still a whole lot for a book that’s a whole lot of boring.
Thanks to the internet, most of it’s now available free online and that means a lot of my clients have diagnosed themselves before we ever meet. Certain labels fall in and out of fashion. For a while there everyone had Borderline Personality Disorder. But then it became painfully clear that the symptoms of BPD were basically just being immature and selfish with a propensity to see things as strictly all-ornone.
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