“The D.S.M. has been taken too seriously,” another expert told me. “It’s the victim of its success.”

--The D.S.M.'s Troubled Revision

For those of us who take our diagnosis as part of our image, changes in the D.S.M. are taken to heart.

I have not put much weight into STanford's evaluation of me and the change from bipolar I to schizoaffective.

My current psychiatrist thinks I'm still bipolar I, and I hope that's true.