[h3cate]

You minimise it as "being in a book". The book is: "a publication by the American Psychiatric Association for the classification of mental disorders". Are you part of the psychiatric field?

[thomasfedb]

What I was trying to point out is that the relationship should be:

"is a mental health condition" infers "is in the DSM"

Raster than:

"is in the DSM" infers "is a mental health condition"

That said, the DSM is a good reference for finding out what the APA consider to be a legitimate condition.

I'm not a psychiatrist. But I do diagnose and treat mental health conditions most days at work.