Psychiatric and neurological over-diagnosing, coming up with new diagnostic criteria and targeted/patented/high-margin drugs to "alleviate symptoms" is one of the biggest rackets for big pharma, in addition to the cancer "treatment" industry.
DSM and the constant revision of it was practically invented for this and most of the authors sitting on the editorial board of DSM have long standing and lucrative big pharma ties.
Psychiatric and neurological over-diagnosing, coming up with new diagnostic criteria and targeted/patented/high-margin drugs to "alleviate symptoms" is one of the biggest rackets for big pharma, in addition to the cancer "treatment" industry.
DSM and the constant revision of it was practically invented for this and most of the authors sitting on the editorial board of DSM have long standing and lucrative big pharma ties.