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Reminds me of this, from last month:

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE66Q4BJ20100727

"... many in the psychiatric community are worried that the further the guidelines are expanded, the more likely it will become that nobody will be classed as normal any more."

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I took a deviance class in College. The most important thing that I took away from the class is that deviance is normal. Everybody is deviant somehow. Granted, deviance is a sociology concept rather than a psychiatric one, but I doubt that psychiatry is much different.

After all, everyone gets physically ill. Why is it such a stretch to say that everyone gets mentally ill from time to time?

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