Someone help me understand this. From what I know they are arbitrarily created to make it easier to categories groups of symptoms and try to understand mental conditions by approximating them to very similar circumstances.
Mental disorders is still a new field and for the DSMs it was always expected to only capture the newest discoveries of that time, as the field is slowly progressing our understanding of mental health.
None of them have objective phenomena
But aren't they just describing symptoms and phenomena? From what I've heard they are supposed to make it easier to understand mental conditions and magically create phenomena; they are supposed to describe what we see and support theories and relate to similar phenomena, so a therapist or psychologist knows how to proceed.
Please correct if I'm wrong because I am not a medical professional, I've only been at the receiving end of therapy.