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DSM-VI: Reality TV Disorder?

Posted on July 21, 2008

You know how I like to pick apart professionals who make all sorts of logical fallacies when suggesting new diagnoses off the cuff because they ve personally seen a rise of such cases. Sorry, it s my failing, and I m working on it. But in the meantime It s funny, but once you start thinking you re an expert on a new disorder (that you either created from your imagination or your patients imaginations, or helped to do so), suddenly people start flocking to you for help. I call it the moth to the light phenomenon. Then you think it s a real diagnosis, because su...

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