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Before I got happily dismissed from the then-Yugoslav army, I was diagnosed with "Psychoneurosis Nuclearis". Now, if "Psychoneurosis is not an illness", does that mean that the military doctor actually invented an "illness" just to fill in the blank, after he found no real illness with me, or what?

Em The military doctor himself didn't invent the illness; the diagnostic criteria was probably taught to him by someone else. Unfortunately western psych…moreThe military doctor himself didn't invent the illness; the diagnostic criteria was probably taught to him by someone else. Unfortunately western psychiatric diagnoses do not have a scientific basis the way most physical diseases and ailments do. If a doctor says you have cancer, HIV, or a broken limb, that is because they actually found cancer cells, the HIV virus, or a physical break in your bone. If they say you have "bipolar", "ADHD", or "psychoneurosis", there is no scan or test they've done to determine that. Instead, they look at your symptoms and certain collections of symptoms are said to be this or that disorder. Determining which clusters of symptoms form their own disorder is a process that's done with a handful of doctors and is done in secret, but at the end of the day -- yes, it's effectively made up. If you take 3 people diagnosed with a given psychiatric disorder, there is no reason to believe that they all share the same physical or psychological root for their symptoms. It would be like instead of diagnosing people with the flu, hayfever, or a cat allergy, we grouped all of the similar symptoms together into a disorder called "sneezeitis". (less)

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