Here are some of my proposed new diagnostic categories:

Institutional Adjustment Disorder (IAD): a failure of institutions to respond to the needs of humanity and the planet.

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Obsessive Capitalist Disorder (OCD)
Major Oppressive Disorder (MOD)
Managerial Spectrum Disorder (MSD)
Authoritarian Spectrum Disorder (ASD)

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Corporate/capitalist malingering: feigning public interest orientation in order to mask/distract from profit seeking behaviour.

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Personality disorders which include:

Anti-Socialist Personality Disorder (ASPD) (irrational antipathy towards socialism)
Corporate Personality Disorder
Bureaucratic Personality Disorder (bpd)
Borderline Fascist Disorder

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Psychotic Disorders which include:

Climate Change Denial Spectrum Disorders
Criminalization Disorder: the tendency to unnecessarily criminalize human conduct
Neo-Liberal Disorder
Medicalization disorder: characterized by overmedicalization of social problems

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Specific phobias which include inappropriate fear of collective action, mutual aid, and solidarity

Generalized Austerity Disorder (GAD): unusual preoccupation with cutting social programs (eg. healthcare, education) and public interest regulations

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Anti-democratic disorder (add)
type 1: fascist
type 2: hypofascist

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Xenophobic/oppressive personality disorders including:

Racist Personality Disorder
Anti-Semitic Personality Disorder
Islamophobic Personality Disorder
Misogynistic Personality Disorder
Homophobic/Heteronormative Personality Disorder
Transphobic personality disorder

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Settler/colonial disorders

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Complacent Personality Disorder

Indifference disorder

Major de-politicized/de-historicized disorder (MDD): a consistent refusal to recognize political and historical context

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Environmentally/ecologically destructive disorder

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Institutional corruption disorder

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We need to work urgently towards the treatment of these deadly disorders. Perhaps effective treatment will include collective action, acts of solidarity, privatizing the public interest, public education, etc.

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By "privatizing the public interest" I meant to say "prioritizing the public interest". That was an interesting slip of the tongue.

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Policy use disorders including:
Corporate tax cut use disorder, military and arms trade use disorders, and fossil fuels subsidy use disorder. 15/
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