Why is the DSM-5 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manaual of Statistical Disorders, Fifth Edition) criticized?

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For those who know not, it is a compendium of psychiatric conditions that are reviewed with every edition with tthe latest edition being DSM-5 TR published by the American Psychiatric Association (APA).

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It’s an arbitrarily compiled “consensus” based diagnostic manual that sucks at diagnosis. Many of the criteria given enable one set of symptoms to fall into a dozen categories depending on who is doing the diagnosis. Previous versions considered female arousal as a mental disorder (hysteria), for example of how Wikipedia like it is.

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