Reddit reviews Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition, Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR)

Back when I worked at a book store (former chain that no longer exists) there was the one guy who managed to take all 4 of our DSM-IV hardcovers and 2 paperbacks (about $600 and 30lbs worth of books), put them under his jacket and use the "I'm a fucking psycho" face to walk out of the store.

We could seem him go across the street to the used bookstore to try and sell them for drug and alcohol money, and then we saw him storm out of that store when the owner refused to buy them from him.

edit: DSM-IVs are now kept behind the counter at every bookstore in the area that I've been to, I've seen his picture from our security cams next to a few of them.

This is the book generally used to try to determine a mental illness and its severity. It helps to keep everyone on the same page, so to speak.

Depression doesn't exist? Bipolar disorder doesn't exist? Everything here doesn't exist?

I'll buy that there's some strategy and priority issues; the article itself talks about that at some length. Claiming that there's no problem to be solved is certainly a... novel interpretation. You may even be able to convince me there's a nocebo amplification of an underlying signal... but you'll never convince there's no underlying signal of mental disorders.

That is the definition of a sociopath. See if you can get a copy of the DSM-IV-TR, book mark it and leave it for him to read.

If he's a real sociopath, he needs to know he's been found out. If he isn't, he needs to know that this is not a tolerated attitude in our society regardless of his religious excuses.