Stonebird

The 25% Group and Stonebird have just posted a joint response , which can be found here : www.stonebird.co.uk/severemesubmission.doc

Have you looked at the DSM5 proposals yet, for Simple and Complex Somatoform Disorder yet ? In their dreams this is the label  psychiatrists salivate over for  ME, Fibromyalgia  and such like.  As I work on a response, I cannot believe that anyone takes this dippy bunkum seriously - except that it's deadly cold sober  indeed. As Dr   James Howenstein writes :  "When you look below the surface at the specialty of psychiatry what you uncover is so ludicrous it is difficult to believe that it is really true. Prominent psychiatrists from all over the world gather annually for a meeting at which new diseases are invented. There are no objective findings that establish the diagnosis of these diseases. These new diseases are included in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Diseases.  Potential new diseases are discussed at these meetings and new diseases are voted in or out by a show of hands .  Among the new diseases are socia...