"If You Question Authority, You Are Mentally Ill", Report Finds

ZeroHedge.com ^ | 21 January, 2015 | Anonymous

[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.

[SaraJohnson]

These “smart” people do seem to love fascism and communism.

[MrB]

It’s because only under those systems are the “really smart people” given enough power to make (better) decisions for all the stupid people.

At least, when it comes down to it, that’s what their assumption is.

[Idaho_Cowboy]

“I wish we wouldn’t emulate EVERY single thing the Soviet Union did.”

At this point, I’d be game for getting the free bottle of vodka they gave for showing up and voting.

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Hard Cider would be so much more American. John Adams started his day with a mug of it, and he had a problem with questioning authority.

“The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.”

“The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.” -John Adams

Samuel Adam (not of the Beer fame) said “The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.” Sounds like he questioned authority.