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[–]MarkTwainiac 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The dsm-5 criteria is indeed problematic but that's true for all mental disorders, nothing there is based on any good evidence.

It's totally not true that "all mental disorders" in the DSM are described in the vague, repetitive, totally unverifiable way that gender dysphoria is. GD relies entirely on patients' whims and insistence; there are no objective criteria.

By contrast, the diagnosis of most other conditions require that specific, clearly defined symptoms be present, many of which are verifiable by observation and objective evidence.

And your claim that "nothing there is based on any good evidence" is a total bullshit LIE.

Major depressive disorder for example:

https://www.mdcalc.com/dsm-5-criteria-major-depressive-disorder

Schizophrenia:

https://www.psycom.net/schizophrenia-dsm-5-definition/

Obsessive-compulsive disorder:

https://www.aafp.org/afp/2015/1115/afp20151115p896.pdf

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK519704/table/ch3.t13/

Even contentious, recently added mental health issues like "complicated grief" have been hashed over and vigorously debated by professionals and patients in an effort to clearly define and describe the condition.

Although the criteria is still being argued about, complicated grief is not just a matter of an individual's preference and desire for happier times and conviction that "death isn't real" or "loss sucks" the way GD is based on a person's preferences and desires for toys, clothing, roles and sex stereotypes associated the opposite sex. Nor is it simply coz a person has a "conviction" about his or her experienced/expressed fantasy self and what he or she believes to be true of the inner lives of other people based solely on what the person imagines and assumes others' inner lives to be like rather than on making an attempt to ask, inquire about or investigate what other people experience. In complicated grief, the death/loss of a real person in the individual's life has to have occurred - that's a prerequisite.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3075805/