This why historically psychiatry advocated not catering to delusions held by patients.
That is, until the APA was hijacked by activists who intimidated people for saying the obvious.
Exactly.
Anyone who says science is apolitical should look at the Soviet Union.
Those who didn’t believe that they lived in a paradise on Earth while in a third world hellhole were diagnosed as having “sluggish schizophrenia”. Political dissidents could then be locked up on a doctor’s word, drugged, tortured, lectured, and there’s no need for even a trial or legal involvement.
Liberals have done the same thing with sexual disorders, trying to remove the medical diagnosis to make it normal. In order, they have been making homosexuality not a mental illness (changing it from a mental disorder to OK after a majority of the board members were homosexual, source, “Kinsey: crime and consequences), then debating the evil of pedophilia (studies on the percentages of victims who don’t see it as harmful), excusing incest with genetic attraction disorder, making transgenderism “normal” and supporting a ban on conversion therapy to help those with same sex attraction overcome it.