The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual is the acknowledged go-to ‘How Mad Is My Patient?’ guide used by head-doctors in the West today. Currently in its fifth edition, known as the DSM-5 for the sake of the continued mental wellbeing of those with ADHD, it has ballooned in size from the first DSM, published by the American Psychiatric Association in 1952, which was a simple, 32-page spiral-bound booklet, to the near 1,000-page shelf-breaking monster it is today.

This isn’t anything to do with the publishers using a much larger type-face and double-spacing to aid those with Fear of Reading Books Disease: it’s because, in our intervening decades of ever-increasing social insanity, the number of often possibly imaginary mental diagnoses available to physicians has ballooned. The newest ways to go loony include Prolonged Grief Disorder, Stimulant-Induced Mild Neurocognitive Disorder, and the incredibly vague Unspecified Mood Disorder.

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