Edited sentence: Examples include ADHD and bipolar disorder.Full disclosure by DSM panel members of their financial relationships with for-profit entities that manufacture drugs used in the treatment of mental illness is recommended.Healthcare professionals directly accuse colleagues and the pharmaceutical industry that disease mongering is happening in bipolar disorder (manic depression) The prevalence of this disease was thought to be about 0.1% 100 years ago.It concluded that (verbatim) "the connections are especially strong in those diagnostic areas where drugs are the first line of treatment for mental disorders.It found that (verbatim) "of the 170 DSM panel members 95 (56%) had one or more financial associations with companies in the pharmaceutical industry.Nowadays, it is between 2.6% and 6.5%.One hundred percent of the members of the panels on 'Mood Disorders' and 'Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders' had financial ties to drug companies".One possibility is lax diagnostic criteria, promoted by science advisory panel members with financial conflicts of interest.One study examined the conflicts of interest of panel members responsible for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM).This increase in diagnosing bipolar disorder is seen also in children but only in the USA (see citation Healy D).Why are so many more patients diagnosed with bipolar disorder