NAME THAT ENGINE
Adults who had never been diagnosed start showing up at their doctors, saying they read about it in a book and recognized themselves. The advocacy group CHADD backs them up.
What is consumers and advocacy groups?
The share of US children, the CDC now estimates, have ADHD.
What is 7%?
The year homosexuality came out of the DSM.
What is 1974?
The chapter's example of a condition that is contested and only minimally medicalized.
What is sexual addiction?
An internal company memo flags this condition as highly debilitating and points to huge profit potential in treating it.
What is the drug industry?
This ratio fell from 9 to 1 down to 3 to 1 during the 1980s.
What is the ratio of boys to girls diagnosed with ADHD, after the diagnosis shifted from acting up to spacing out?
The number of distinct diagnoses in DSM-IV.
What is 297?
Conrad and Potter's term for what happened when ADHD expanded to adults struggling at work.
What is the medicalization of underperformance?
The person who edited DSM-III and the person who edited DSM-IV end up on the same side of a fight against their own colleagues over one clause.
What is Psychiatric professionals?
Estimates for social anxiety ranged from under 7 percent to 19 percent. The marketing campaign picked one figure.
What is 13.3 percent?
Bigger number, bigger market.
The one and only place DSM-IV formally recognized normal sadness.
What is the bereavement exclusion?
ADHD got much more medicalized between 1968 and today without one thing ever happening.
What is no new diagnosis was created?
Conrad says doctors used to be the engine. What are they now, and what everyday advertising line shows it?
What is gatekeepers?
The share of DSM-5 panel members who had financial ties to the pharmaceutical industry.
What is >50%?
The chapter says being listed in the DSM does one specific thing to a condition.
What is legitimates it as a medical disorder?
Medicalization is supposed to run both directions. The chapter stresses one thing about the reverse.
What is its rarity?