"Two nuts" think it's all wrong. Those two particular nuts happen to be the head of the NIMH and the man who headed the DSM-IV job. Hardly nuts, and their opinions carry much, much weight.

Your description of them as "nuts" points up the problem with the DSM--its subjectivity. There IS no definition of mental illness, at least not a quantifiable one, and it's time to stop pretending there is.

Since the DSM-V is likely to be doomed now that the NIMH has abandoned it, maybe the flood of pharmaceutical drugs numbing America will be reduced to a trickle.