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Diabetes is a biological disease which can be objectively proven and diagnosed based on biological tests.

There are no objective biological diagnostic criteria for anything in the DSM.

"psychiatric diagnosis still relies exclusively on fallible subjective judgments rather than objective biological tests" -Allen Frances, The New Crisis of Confidence in Psychiatric Diagnosis

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Frances

parent improv 2 years ago

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