Description:Are psychiatric diagnoses helping people—or just organizing them into boxes?In this foundational episode of Off Label: Data, Diagnostics, and the Future of Mental Health, Dr. Steve Rondeau challenges the assumptions at the heart of modern psychiatry. Drawing from his article The Illusion of Psychiatric Diagnosis and Treatment, we take a critical look at how standardized labels like those in the DSM fail to predict treatment outcomes, often contribute to over-pathologization, and risk stigmatizing rather than supporting individuals.With insight, skepticism, and a dose of dry humor, this episode examines why mental health care must move beyond symptom checklists toward personalized, data-informed, brain-based models that respect individual variability. We discuss the philosophical and clinical implications of treating diagnoses as identities, and why a flexible, neuroscience-grounded approach may offer a more compassionate and effective path forward.If you’ve ever questioned the categories that define mental illness—or felt boxed in by them—this episode invites you to rethink what diagnosis should mean in the age of precision mental health.

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