Title: 1 in 5 U.S. Kids Has a Mental Health Disorder: CDCCategory: Health NewsCreated: 5/16/2013 2:36:00 PMLast Editorial Review: 5/17/2013 12:00:00 AM

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders handbook determines which diagnostic codes medical professionals use for patients and can affect whether health insurance pays for treatment. The latest version has some critics.

An update to one of the most important manuals in mental health - known as the bible of psychiatry - is to be published later on Saturday.

Over the course of my life, I have been given no fewer than five different diagnoses for mental illnesses, under the diagnostic system laid out in psychiatry’s “bible,” the DSM.  But it was a sixth diagnosis— one that ironically will no longer appear in the edition being rolled out this week, DSM-5— that probably most accurately describes what is genuinely ...

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