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[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The diagnosis in DSM-V are the consensus of professionals. Diagnosis appear in it once there's sufficient clinical evidence of the <>, and the members come to a consensus.

It is true that you won't find e.g.. scrupulosity in the DSM-V, but you will find OCD, and practitioners that deal with religious issues recognize that scrupulosity is a manifestation of OCD. Religious trauma would be more correctly seen as a cause of PTSD of CPTSD, rather than a distinct diagnosis of it's own..

Simply being a practicing psychologist and acting as though a thing is real is not sufficient proof that a thing is real; after all, you'll find plenty of therapists--almost all of them treating therapy as a religious exercise--the will talk about addiction to pornography and masturbation, when the literature indicates that it's not a problem in the way that they act like it is. Therapists in Utah will quite often act as though any use of pornography is evidence of an addiction to pornography (see also: Jodi Hildebrandt). Some therapists still insist that being homosexual or transgender are mental disorders than can be cured.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

The diagnosis in DSM-V are the consensus of professionals. Diagnosis appear in it once there's sufficient clinical evidence of the <>, and the members come to a consensus.

I think it's more accurate to say it's a consensus, not the consensus. The consensus necessarily does and should change over time, and the DSM-V is a decade old.

Religious trauma would be more correctly seen as a cause of PTSD of CPTSD, rather than a distinct diagnosis of it's own..

According to you and maybe the DSM, not necessarily the consensus of psychologists. It's not a decided issue whether it should be a diagnosis of its own or not.

Ultimately, maybe the woman in the article does have an addiction. Maybe she masturbates so much, she can't function as an adult. I don't know, but I know I've read a few studies, and they never used "porn addiction" (except to critique the notion), but they did use "sexual addiction."

Here's one, and the relevant quote: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&amp;as_sdt=0%2C44&amp;q=porn+addiction&amp;btnG=#d=gs_qabs&amp;t=1701288070891&amp;u=%23p%3DNjIPuUqk95kJ

However, despite all efforts, we are still unable to profile when engaging in this behavior becomes pathological. Common problems include: sample bias, the search for diagnostic instrumentals, opposing approximations to the matter, and the fact that this entity may be encompassed inside a greater pathology (i.e., sex addiction) that may present itself with very diverse symptomatology.