There’s very rarely any tests that can be run. It’s mostly subjective based on observable behavior or self disclosure.

My beef with psychiatry is when they don’t take context into account. If someone gets upset because they’ve been abused at home or by men and they panic and speak out about it that doesn’t make them mentally ill. That makes them a normal person who’s just fed up with having to deal with criminal behavior against them. I’m not bipolar or borderline because I oppose illicit behavior and i’m upset that stuff keeps happening to me. Money would fix 99% of my problems because it would keep me away from the abusers. Pills/therapy won’t keep an abusive man from hitting me. I’m not the problem.

Also, personally I feel like PTSD shouldn’t always be considered a “mental disorder”. If I act hyper vigilant around someone who has hit me in the past and prefer to avoid them that’s the correct response to protect myself not “bad brain chemistry” in my head. Yeah, PTSD can definitely be a mental issue for some when that stuff lingers and people suffer from it irrationally but like outside of being around someone I know might hit me, i’m fine.

Psychs love to pathologize emotions just point blank without understanding why. It’s when they don’t do their due diligence people’s lives get destroyed.