Posted on 01/21/2015 3:39:32 PM PST by Rockitz
This post is about an issue that is by now a bit dated (though the topic as such certainly isn’t), but we have only just become aware of it and it seemed to us worth rescuing it from the memory hole. In late 2013, the then newest issue of the American Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM for short) defined a new mental illness, the so-called “oppositional defiant disorder” or ODD.
As TheMindUnleashed.org informs us, the definition of this new mental illness essentially amounts to declaring any non-conformity and questioning of authority as a form of insanity. According to the manual, ODD is defined as:
[…] an “ongoing pattern of disobedient, hostile and defiant behavior,” symptoms include questioning authority, negativity, defiance, argumentativeness, and being easily annoyed.
In short, as Natural News put it: According to US psychiatrists, only the sheeple are sane.
Every time a new issue of the DSM appears, the number of mental disorders grows – and this growth is exponential. A century ago there were essentially 7 disorders, 80 years ago there were 59, 50 years ago there were 130, and by 2010 there were 374 (77 of which were “found” in just seven years). A prominent critic of this over-diagnosing (and the associated over-medication trend) is psychologist Dr. Paula Caplan.
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Well the GOP included a provision to tear down a lot of our border fence in their immigration bill so that should make some freepers VERY happy.
You have pre-empted the bulk of the rest of the article.
There is an obvious danger involved with such loose definitions such as the one employed in identifying the alleged illness of “ODD”. A chilling example was provided by the Soviet Union in the 1960s and 1970s. In a 1959 speech, Nikita Khrushchev made the following remark:
“Can there be diseases, nervous diseases among certain people in the communist society? Evidently there can be. If that is so, then there also will be offenses which are characteristic of people with abnormal minds. To those who might start calling for opposition to communism on this ‘basis,’ we say that now, too, there are people who fight against communism, but clearly the mental state of such people is not normal.”
Obviously, questioning the best socio-economic system ever devised had to be a sign of insanity, and after Khrushchev’s speech Soviet psychiatrists immediately went to work to discover and institutionalize all those mentally ill “communism deniers”.
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I don’t suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it.
ODD was in DSM-IV. It is almost exclusively applied to children. There is usually another underlying condition, such as terrible parenting.
I am not a fan of DSM-V for a number of reasons, but it does simplify diagnostic practices. Oddly, psychiatrists played a huge role in developing it. Psychologists are far more qualified to test, evaluate and make diagnoses.
“...an “ongoing pattern of disobedient, hostile and defiant behavior,” symptoms include questioning authority, negativity, defiance, argumentativeness, and being easily annoyed.”
My teen-daughters have this. Luckily it usually goes away by the time they get home from school.
It was actually a pretty good flick.
this is the “logical” outcome of feminism.
But they did remove narcissism, just in time for the Great Pretender to come to occupy the Oval Office.
There are sane people on this planet? Gosh, don’t anyone tell the Grays ... There will be more inbreeding with Earth people.
Most psychiatrists are far more twisted than the general population.
And you certainly need your guns taken away too...
Don’t trust anyone under 30
The Communists in Russia locked dissidents up in insane asylums for the same reason, so our Communists are just following their protocol.
Je Suis mentally ill.
Just wait until they get this programmed into that “Complete Lives” model.
Ah, the term “deniers”. I seem to recall some people in academia calling for the medication and/or institutionalization of “global warming deniers”.
I thought that questioning authority was something liberals have been touting since the sixties. It’s nice that there is a study to prove what we have been saying all along, liberalism is a disease.
A long far cry from the pre-Obama “Dissent is Patriotic” mantra.
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