DSM - OHMG!

[river]

I was just reading a book, + it has the definition of personality disorder, this is a bit of it: 

Only when personality traits are inflexible, maladaptive, and cause ither functional impairment or subjective distress do they constitute a personality disorder   

   

"subjective distress".... What that implies is that when an N for example, exports the internal pain that they themselves deny as being thiers, onto someone else, and therefore dont even get to feel it themselves, it means they dont qualify as having a PD.  Moreover, the other person is then the one with the problem.  Isnt the DSM basically then taking part or colluding with the whole PD dynamic? 

And 'successful', Ns (or borderlines), who are high functioning and are in positions of power,  dont seem to have "functional impairments" - except to those on the recieving end, - are also classified omitted from the classification.     

[Hopalong]

Except that harming other people should be viewed as "functional impairment", right?
I guess in this culture, anything short of murder or rape isn't viewed as "dysfunctional."
And with rape-culture on the rise...even then.

This is what Western society looks like in its death spiral, I think.

I think they have the PD anyway and I see what you mean, that this establishment
definition isn't going to help "out" them.

Maybe, it's time to give up on the DSM for insight and look to the philosophers.


Hops

[river]

Oh yes, absolutely.   
 

This is what Western society looks like in its death spiral, I think.
 

  sort a sums it up : o 

I would run a mile from the DSM myself, but thinking about the implications of the health profession who take in its influence, or indeed whose rather short sightedness ('optical neglect' perhaps) created it.

      Thanks for sharing your thoughts, good to hear you.