<unk>  is a highly controversial mental health diagnosis that was included in the American Psychiatric Association’s (APA) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) from 1980 to 1987 (under the name<unk><unk>  homosexuality) and in the World Health Organization’s (WHO) International Classification of Diseases (ICD) from 1990 to 2019. Individuals could be diagnosed with<unk>  if their<unk><unk>  or attractions were at odds with their idealized self-image, causing anxiety and a desire to change their<unk>  or become more comfortable with it. It described not innate<unk><unk>  itself, but a conflict between the<unk><unk>  a person wished to have and their actual<unk><unk> . The addition of<unk><unk>  homosexuality to the DSM-III in 1980 constituted a political compromise between those who believed that homosexuality was a pathological condition and those who believed it was a normal variant of<unk> ity. Under pressure from members of the psychiatry and psychology fields and mounting scientific evidence that the desire to be heterosexual is a common phase in a gay, lesbian, or bisexual person’s identity development rather than an indication of mental illness, the diagnosis was removed seven years later, but<unk>  was added to the ICD-10 in 1990. Leading up to the publication of the ICD-11, a WHO-appointed working group recommended its deletion, due to a lack of clinical utility, a lack of usefulness in public health data, and the potential for negative consequences. The diagnostic categories of<unk><unk>  homosexuality and<unk>  legitimized controversial<unk><unk>  change efforts, most notably the practice of conversion therapy, even as such practices were being increasingly scientifically debunked. After an extensive review of the research literature, the WHO working group concluded that there are no evidence-based treatments for<unk> , and individuals who exhibit distress or concern over their<unk><unk>  do not require any unique therapeutic interventions other than common treatments for distress, anxiety, depression, and other conditions.
Ego-dystonic sexual orientation
Musical anhedonia
Sexual anhedonia
Callous and unemotional traits
Gender dysphoria
Hyperthymic temperament
Maladaptive daydreaming
Personality pathology