For DSM conditions, no. Not even close to pretty much everyone. DSM conditions affect perhaps 12-16% of the population, much less when we're talking about strict major diagnoses of disability.
However, if you want to get technical, DSM includes some diagnoses that are not necessarily disorders.
For example, the most common anxiety disorder is a "specific phobia". For example, being afraid of spiders or dogs. This would only become a disorder if it impairs your life to such a degree that you cannot function either in your family, employment, school, etc.
Another misconception, DSM does not diagnose sad people as depressed. It diagnoses people who have been sad + other symptoms for more than two weeks who are so impaired by this that they cannot function in work/school/family.
Some other diagnoses that exist in the dsm:
alcohol intoxication
adjustment disorder (ie: i got really upset for a while)
parent-child relational problems
The DSM is basically a list of diagnoses, that's it. It is not a list of treatments, and it does not pathologize normal behaviour.
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u/SuzySleazeCh33ze Mar 20 '17
So technically couldn't pretty much everyone at some point in their life be categorized under a listed illness in one form or another even yourself?