11/16/2025
In the USA, Drug companies and insurance companies have a substantial partnership and financial stake in construing psychological problems and normal human emotions as a disease and to market their toxic drugs.
The diagnostic manual? The DSM-5 It’s like a phone book... it gives you numbers but tells you nothing about the uniquely complex individual.
It’s the disorder-based stigmatizing approach to human psyche in the place of a more empathetic curious one that unsettles me. I can’t come to terms with the whole “sick system”of classifying people based on
“symptoms”
The DSM is psychiatry’s Master Signifier... empty of content, not based on science, but necessary for their place in the medical Symbolic Order.
The DSM-5 has more than 300 "disorders" of which 270 are overlapping.
“I know what you are... you’re 296.33!”
They need the little number boxes because without them, they’re just paid friends with a prescription pad.
In the USA, Insurance companies require diagnoses (which they will permanently keep in your records & they do not maintain confidentiality), dictate the number of therapy sessions you are allowed, dictate duration of therapy session, dictate frequency, and dictate the course of therapy based on their business policies and their business algorithms rather than your unique needs. This can interfere with the depth and flexibility necessary for meaningful therapeutic work.
Whenever you file a medical insurance claim, whether it is for psychotherapy or a broken leg, that information goes into a national clearinghouse called the Medical Information Bureau (www.mib.com).
The information MIB has in your file is used to deny you life insurance and disability insurance - and raise your premiums and deductibles
