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These are difficult issues.

In any area of health where something has as much potential for subjectivity as this, diagnosis is hard, and so is preventing potential abuse of such diagnoses.

My own experience isn't with these syndromes, but with things like ADHD in the education system. It seems apparent to me that the diagnosis in recent years has been widened beyond real needs. The temptation to do that is great: doctors have a hammer, and start to see nails everywhere, especially when patients are demanding something "real" and specific as a diagnosis. Pharmaceutical companies want to sell the medicines. Teachers see a quick medical solution for something that might otherwise take a lot of work and a lot of time they don't have for one student.

I have no background in PTSD, but I would imagine the potential for this sort of abuse can be found here, too. Add to that the financial issues involved, and the political baggage (from both sides of the aisle), and it gets even worse.

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