Episode 6: McDonald’s Sprite, Cheese Cravings, And The DSM
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The DSM sits on so many office shelves like a permanent authority, but its history tells a different story: mental health diagnosis is a living document shaped by culture, politics, research, and plain old human error. We start with the DSM’s roots in 1952, originally designed for shared language in military and psychiatric hospital settings, and talk about how that origin still influences the myth that therapy is only for people in crisis instead of something you can use preventatively during big life transitions.
From there we track the huge pivot that comes with DSM-III in…
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