Dr. Paul Conti

To say, well, we also need to be able to communicate, right?

So we would have diagnosis numbers.

So one clinician can communicate to another clinician.

You could say, okay, here's the syndrome that's going on here.

And you could communicate with insurance companies for billing purposes.

There was a reasoning behind it that has gotten wildly out of control.

So now we have this book of taxonomy and we think of it, as you said, like a Bible and it gets called like the Bible of mental health to equate this book of taxonomy.

It's a book of taxonomy.

It's an inventory of numbers, right?

to equate that to a religious book.

And again, I'm not being critical.

This is how the field does.

The field sees it this way.

It shows how lost we are because in all those numbers is not understanding.

So it burgeoned out of control.

We'll make more numbers and more numbers.

Now there's a system that wants to understand you.

They're good people.

I've worked in VA systems.

They're good people in the VA systems who want to help, but they're working under a misguided premise.