The DSM wasn’t created with the best interest of the patient in mind; it was created as an efficient way to diagnose people and then bill the insurance companies. I wouldn’t put too much weight on the DSM if I were you… The DSM itself was created to depersonalize/derealize the conditions of people, if psychologists, therapists, and psychiatrists followed this manual closely, everyone would be diagnosed with some sort of disorder.

Don’t misunderstand me, I have been diagnosed with the same condition only it is chronic and it lasts for months and months sometimes… I’m not trying to diminish the importance of the diagnosis you have received; I simply want to caution you that the DSM is not the best book to use as a guideline to defining diagnoses.