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Tabloids tend to be a bit shrill when reporting on proposed reforms.
Shyness in a child and depression after bereavement could be classed as mental illness in controversial new reforms
Shyness in a child and depression after bereavement could be classed as mental illness in controversial new reforms
A growth field, this:Childhood shyness could be reclassified as a mental disorder under controversial new guidelines, warn experts.
They also fear that depression after bereavement and behaviour now seen as eccentric or unconventional will also become ‘medicalised’.
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The threat comes in the form of proposed changes to [the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders], viewed as a bible by some in the field.
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The DSM5 changes are also opposed by many experts in the U.S., some of whom claim they reflect efforts by drug companies to sell more products.
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more at Daily Mail link above---
Simon Wessely, of the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College, London, said:
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‘Back in 1840 the census of the United States included just one category for mental disorder.
‘By 1917 the American Psychiatric Association recognised 59, rising to 128 in 1959, 227 in 1980, and 347 in the last revision. Do we really need all these labels?
‘Probably not. And there is a real danger that shyness will become social phobia, bookish kids labelled as Asperger’s and so on.’
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