The DSM wasn’t created to find root causes. It was created to categorize behavior. The same medical system that once diagnosed women with “hysteria” — blaming emotions, pain, exhaustion, and non-compliance on a “disordered mind” — is the system that later built the DSM. Not to investigate the body. Not to ask why symptoms exist. But to group behaviors into labels. The DSM does not assess: • nutrient deficiencies • trauma • nervous system dysregulation • toxicity • hormones • inflammation • airwa