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I'm not sure, I just don't think that a textbook that can be used to diagnose everybody with a disease is very trustworthy. Kind of like how passing a law that can be used to arrest anybody is generally not a good idea, or something like that.


Which brings us back to my inital point - the ICD can be used to do the same thing, therefore medicine isn't very trustworthy.


I would be curious to know what percentage of the diseases in the DSM vs the ICD are based on empirical tests. Questionnaires are not empirical.


I don't think either of us know that, but I makes sense to start asking increasingly hard to answer question while you're pushing the goalpost around.


My original comment in this thread was how anyone could be diagnosed with something in the DSM, and usage of subjective methods is a major way that can happen, so it seems the goalpost didn't move at all.




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