PB -Your theories are way off base. Binge eating was included in the last edition and will be included probably as a separate entity in the next.
Also, “combining the sociopathic personality disorders into antisocial personality disorder” -I don’t know why you would say these reclassifications are because of politics. They still are called mental disorders.
“PMS, a very real disorder which has plenty of scientific research to back it, is not in the DSM for political reasons.”
The reason for this is because it’s not a Mental disorder, only a medical disorder. This has nothing to do with politics. There is a small subset of PMS called PMDD, which was classified in the last DSM as a subset of another mental disorder. The committee is considering removing it entirely, leaving it be or changing it to it’s own disorder. The reason they are thinking to remove it -is because it’s such a small subset, it can be just under the medical disorder of PMS, it doesn’t need it’s own mental classification. Even so, one expert doesn’t think they will go with this option. I see no logical reason for anyone to claim any of this has to do with politics. So the same for ADHD, if it fell under a medical disorder, they would leave it out. It’s Not a medical disorder. Also, you don’t put things in the DSM for insurance to cover things because they shell out much more freely if the disorder is medical as opposed to Mental!