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An updated edition of the "Bible" of mental health used by physicians may include diagnosis of "disorders" as the child's tantrums and compulsive eating, which could mean that soon nobody will ever be classified as normal.
Major mental health experts warned on Tuesday, 27, a new edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, which is now being revised for publication in May 2013, it could devalue the seriousness of mental illness and label nearly everyone with some kind of disorder. Citing
new updates, such as "mild depression with anxiety," "syndrome with risk of psychosis" and "uneven temperament disorder," the experts said that many perfectly healthy people could in future be informed that they are sick. A report from Reuters.
doing this is to reduce a pool to a puddle of water which is normal, "said Til Wykes, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London.
The manual is published by the American Psychiatric Association and contains descriptions, symptoms and other criteria for the diagnosis of disorders mental. It is seen as the bible for the field of global mental health medicine.
The criteria are designed to provide clear definitions for professionals who treat patients with mental disorders and researchers and pharmaceutical companies seeking to develop new forms of treatment.
Wykes Felicity Callard and colleagues, also from the Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College, and Nick Craddock, Department of Neurology and Psychological Medicine at Cardiff University, said many in the psychiatric community are concerned about the expansion of the guidelines, because the more likely it is that no one will be classified as normal.
"Technically, with so many new classification of disorders, all have disorders," they said in joint statement. "This may give the impression that many of us 'need' for drugs to treat our 'conditions' - and many of these drugs can have unpleasant or dangerous side effects."
Scientists said that the diagnosis of "syndrome risk psychosis "is particularly worrisome because it could falsely label young people who may have only a small risk of developing the disease.
"It's a bit like saying the 10 people with a common cold that they are "at risk of pneumonia syndrome", when only one is likely to develop the disease, "said Wykes.
The American Psychiatric Association did not respond to a request for comment on the matter.
Scientists gave examples using the previous revision of the manual, which was called the DSM diagnoses and included four broader categories and for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism and bipolar disorder in childhood.
This, they said, "contributed to three epidemics false," particularly in the United States. "During the last decade, how many doctors alarmed parents to take drugs like Ritalin to children without them really need it? "said Wykes.
Millions of people around the world - many of them children - taking medication for ADHD, including Ritalin, which is known generically as methylphenidate and similar drugs, like Adderall and Vyvanse. In the U.S. alone, sales of these drugs cost about $ 4.8 billion in 2008.
Wykes and Callard comment published in the Journal of Mental Health expressing concern for the next revision of the handbook and highlighting 10 or more papers that other scientists are also worried.
Report [Mental health experts ask: Will anyone Be Normal?] From Reuters, published by estadao.com.br
Report [Mental health experts ask: Will anyone Be Normal?] From Reuters, published by estadao.com.br
EcoDebate, 29/07/2010
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