Since insurance companies got into psychological health, some reluctantly because of legislation, they want something specific to charge and control their expenses, like their medical models. DSM clarifies and they can dictate what they will pay out.
The APA does try very hard to sort things out. There is such a thing as mental illness and disease. It helps a psychiatrist diagnose and prescribe pills specific to whatever. It does help parties to communicate, but it also can be misread and then misused to label. It does help drug companies to make immoral profits. Some categorization is extremely helpful when dealing with mental issues, but not perfect, but guidelines drawn from the obvious.
The more that they discover, the more they have realized how varied ASD has been to nail down. Each ASD person is unique. There is disorder for many. It also is laying off the stigmatization of the labels, because the "spectrum" can be slightly dysfunctional and accepted as just different from most everybody else, to the other end where they need lots of support. It allows weirdness to be okay, or cool and less stuck in a social view of conforming.
Most mental problems are learned, by for example, learning to eat a diet that will give you ups and downs, PTSD, depression, family stories that make dysfunction, beaten, abused, etc. Most disease is a result of learned habits of diet, stress and exercise.
There is dis-ease in nudity BS.
Jbee
