How many disorders that are listed in the DSM-IV are curable?
• What documentable, confirmatory, diagnostic, physical abnormality is found in schizophrenia, ADHD and depression? • What confirmatory, diagnostic tests are available and currently utilized to detect a chemical imbalance? The APA would not respond to the questions and the NIMH, which claimed not to get involved in policy issues, deferred to a psychiatrist who refused to speak on the record. Both groups did, however, suggest reviewing the 1999 Surgeon General’s Report on Mental Health, which Insight promptly read. The report contained the remarkable statement that, “in the United States, mental disorders collectively account for more than 15 percent of the overall burden of disease from all causes and slightly more than the burden associated with all forms of cancer.” But nowhere in the surgeon general’s report was there any reference to a single confirmatory, diagnostic test that proves any physical abnormality in any psychiatric diagnosis. More importantly, several chapters into the
