<I have a feeling this is driven by the drug industry, to classify more personality quirks as disorders so they can justify medicating people for them.

I'm no big fan of "alternative medicine," but it is worth noting that expensive prescription drugs do tend to be recommended by the medical establishment for more and more things. Since most people are insulated from the free market consequences of expensive drugs by insurance and governments, there are no market forces to control this trend.

Conversely, controversial treatments of illness involving cheap substances or procedures (vitamin C, ginseng, vinegar, acupuncture, you name it) often get rejected by the medical professions, and since there is no real money to be made, the treatments often don't get the extensive studies required to prove or disprove them.

No evil conspiracy, just market forces at work in a system where the market is grossly distorted by the fact that few people are ever exposed to most of their medical costs, and assume that medical care is a "right."

Yes, we have a fine medical system in this country, and most of the people in it are good people. Still, even when dealing with a good person, you have to ask: is he selling something here?