Just because diagnostic conditions are not always clear, or overdiagnose, does not make it any less of a disease.
A lot of things mental disorders are based on subjective factors.
Would you disagree that schizophrenia is a disease?
At least 3 of the factors (and you only need two) are highly subjective.
If you wanted to argue that DSM-IV/DSM-V criteria for a lot of things have a tendency to overdiagnose or not be objective enough, I would heartily agree.
That does not make something any less of a disease, it only means our diagnostic criteria suck.
Alzheimers had very broad, subjective, diagnostic criteria once as well, right up until they made various breakthroughs in neuropathology.
Just because diagnostic conditions are not always clear, or overdiagnose, does not make it any less of a disease.
A lot of things mental disorders are based on subjective factors.
Would you disagree that schizophrenia is a disease?
At least 3 of the factors (and you only need two) are highly subjective.
If you wanted to argue that DSM-IV/DSM-V criteria for a lot of things have a tendency to overdiagnose or not be objective enough, I would heartily agree.
That does not make something any less of a disease, it only means our diagnostic criteria suck.
Alzheimers had very broad, subjective, diagnostic criteria once as well, right up until they made various breakthroughs in neuropathology.
Yet you seem willing to class that as a disease?