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The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is but one significant source of psychobabble. The psychobabble use of terms from this manual waxes and wanes, although the actual incidence of mental disorders does not vary significantly over time. Misuse or misapplication of the DSM can be seen when a person "diagnoses" themselves or others based on behaviors, thoughts or feelings that are well within the range of normal variability in healthy individuals. For example, someone who is very organized or who has exceptional attention to detail may be described as being OCD (having Obsessive Compulsive Disorder). Quite to the contrary, these can be highly advantageous personality traits and do not, in and of themselves, represent a disorder. Furthermore, exhibiting some personality traits that are similar to a bona fide disorder, does not represent a mild form of the disorder, but rather no disorder at all. These personality traits do not rise to the level of a disorder until they significantly impair a person's functioning.

This seems like nothing but someone's distaste for the DSM. Neither source mentions "psychobabble", or even describes anything like what this article has defined it to be. Misdiagnosis and self-diagnosis have nothing to do with psychobabble. The cultural stigmata associated to labeling something as a disorder (as in OCD), has nothing to do with psychobabble.

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