Accepted diagnoses edit
Disease mongering and medicalization are serious problems in medicine, and the presence of alternative of pseudoscientific diagnoses is similarly an issue. Wikipedia takes no political stance and covers both proposed diseases and alternative diagnoses, but it is important not to give undue legitimacy.
Questionable diagnoses reach from those that are:
- Proposed or plausible yet not accepted: e.g. Misophonia
- Dubious: e.g. Trichophobia, Chronic Lyme disease
- Alternative: e.g. Adrenal fatigue, Vertebral subluxation
- Hoaxes or fake: e.g. Morgellon's
- The last two points are somewhat similar, making distinction difficult
If a diagnosis is not accepted by major medical authorities such as DSM-V, ICD-10, etc. it should not be treated as accepted and should be handled appropriately (often in the first sentence of the article). Obvious pseudoscience should be called out. Legitimate diagnoses that are misused should be handled similarly, but instead of being called out as false, articles should explain the issue.