Status Updates From DSM: A History of Psychiatr...

Hot take - But I feel like the rise in social anxiety also probably had to do with the growing popularity, and normalization of capitalism. To perform and to be outgoing were essential in order to move forward in the world; and if you were not, that was a problem.

DSM-III-R and IV revisions had a considerably greater impact among women, who were more likely to experience all major categories of traumas: assaultive violence, injuries, exposure to others' traumas, and sudden, unexpected death.