Posted on 12/15/2005 3:26:13 PM PST by WatchYourself
Is hate a disease? Some psychiatrists think so. This was the subject of a recent Washington Post article, entitled “Psychiatry Ponders Whether Extreme Bias Can Be an Illness.” The title suggests the ominous implications.
The Post explains, “Mental health practitioners say they regularly confront extreme forms of racism, homophobia and other prejudice in the course of therapy, and that some patients are disabled by these beliefs. As doctors increasingly weigh the effects of race and culture on mental illness, some are asking whether pathological bias ought to be an official psychiatric diagnosis.”
In short, several psychiatrists are now pushing for racists and people who suffer from “homophobia” to be labeled mentally ill.
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
Do we even need a psychiatrists approval?
It's already labeled...it is called "psychosis" ( detachment from reality).
Physician,heal thyself.
So if say homophobia were an "illness," a normal person could be covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act...?
Phobia is defined as "fear". I don't fear queers, they just disgust me. There's a difference.
Disagreeing with a behavorial lifestyle does NOT make me mentally ill.
Another attempt by the Libs to mainstream carpet munching and pillow biting. These people make me sick!
"It may sound extreme, but this is the beginning of a process that has long been popular with tyrants. In the Soviet Union, Christians were sent by the hundreds of thousands to mental institutions. The state was officially atheist, so if you believe that there was a God, you were insane"
Yup, yup. Time to pull out the Communist Goals from 1963 Congressional Record:
38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
Entire list at: http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm
Soon every "thought crime" will also be a form of mental illness, to be treated the same way such "illnesses" were treated in the old Soviet Union.
Wow...so I guess the Beeyotch in the Ditch IS sane after all...as is Howard Dean! They are DEFINITELY working toward this agenda!
Touche!
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