> all of clinical psychiatry is a scam, basically one guy invents a checklist, pulls it out of his ass, and if a person has more than a certain number of traits on his checklist he gets diagnosed with the disorder yeah i can't really move past this either. it makes it seem more like a scam than anything else. but i also can't deny that i can identify the same patterns pointed out by these disorders. i don't think it really matters if some psych in a chair gives a person a certificate bc they are the best checklist filler. learning about these types of behavior patterns and what types of experiences seem to be clustered together can be enlightening even if you don't take a clinician's opinion as gospel.
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