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I'm trying to understand the underlying presuppositions which lead you to this opinion.
Are you convinced psychiatric medicine:
Ever been forced to take a drug that made you unable to finish reading a sentence because the local government didn't like how you're rude to a teacher?
Nope, but that sounds like psychiatric malfeasance.
I'm sure nobody denies there are bad psychiatrists, but what you're saying sounds more like an argument for better practice's in psychiatry (which happen constantly), as opposed to the claim you had initially, which was about psychiatrists over diagnosing people with a mental illness.
On a related note: The frequency of ADHD diagnoses has risen drastically over the last few decades.
Someone may interpret this to mean psychiatrists are over diagnosing.
Another interpretation is more people are becoming ADHD.
But the medical consensus is that the public understanding of what ADHD is has improved. It is no longer understood as "little boys with too much energy", and so, more people seek help.
It's shameful that misdiagnoses happen, and I'm sorry that happened to you.