Posted on 01/01/2006 11:38:52 AM PST by oxcart
IT'S JAN. 1. Past time to get your inoculation against seasonal affective disorder, or SAD — at least according to the American Psychiatric Assn. As Americans rush to return Christmas junk, bumping into each other in Macy's and Best Buy, the psychiatric association ponders its latest iteration of feeling bad for the holidays. And what is the association selling? Mental illness. With its panoply of major depression, dysthymic disorder, bipolar disorder and generalized anxiety disorder, the association is waving its Calvinist flag to remind everyone that amid all the celebration, all the festivities, all the exuberance, many people will "come down with" or "contract" or "develop" some variation of depressive illness.
The association specializes in turning ordinary human frailty into disease. In the last year, ads have been appearing in psychiatric journals about possible treatments for shyness, a "syndrome" not yet officially recognized as a disease. You can bet it will be in the next edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM-IV, published by the association. As it turns out, the association has been inventing mental illnesses for the last 50 years or so. The original diagnostic manual appeared in 1952 and contained 107 diagnoses and 132 pages, by my count. The second edition burst forth in 1968 with 180 diagnoses and 119 pages. In 1980, the association produced a 494-page tome with 226 conditions. Then, in 1994, the manual exploded to 886 pages and 365 conditions, representing a 340% increase in the number of diseases over 42 years.
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Reread the Seven Deadly Sins--They are all symptoms of neurotic behavior.
How is it then that they turned homosexuality from a disease into a normalcy? Not that there's anything wrong with that.
They do this all the time. They turned homosexuality from a mental disorder to a higher form of human life.
Psychologist need some mental help IMO.
Psychology=Quackery. But then a lot of people like to give their money to quacks.
Pyschiatry has always been "liberal" in its leanings. They want people to celebrate their diversity but at the same time, shrinks frown upon or "label" someone who displays a trait or a behavior that doesn't fall into the liberal cookie-cutter model they want everyone to fall into.
Yes, they are now going after shy people. People who overeat, undereat, don't take vacations, wear white shoes after Labor day. Oh my goodness...the horror! I refuse to own a pair of Birkies, therefore I must be a deviant psychopath, according to the DSM.
LOL/sarc
Every one of then i've ever met socially was a nut case and short on intelgence.
Great pair, ain't it? --- The ABA and the APA. Then add the NEA to the trifecta and we wonder why the country's going to hell in a hand-basket.
Some aren't..among them Dr. Sanity who is a blogger..Dr. Sanity.Com and neo neocon.com
So now shyness is about to become a "mental illness" while having sex with 20 strangers in some AIDS-infested tenement is considered the model of mental health.
"I refuse to own a pair of Birkies, therefore I must be a deviant psychopath,..."
UH-OH! I am in big trouble here, for the only shoes I can wear are Birkies, and I am as conservative an ol' granny in fly-over land as they come.
Those of you who suffer from Morton's neuroma will understand.
Alzheimer's isn't among the fake illnesses. It's very real and you can get it in your 30s so it's not just senility.
So is schizophrenia. When the patients die and they dissect their brains, they find huge areas with obvious damage.
Yep, many psycologists are probably nut cases, I agree.
Possibly I already have it.
Of course Alzheimer's is real, and it has always existed. But it didn't have its fancy new name until a few decades ago. My point, poorly made no doubt, was that renaming an affliction doesn't do much good. And now, if Dad forgets where he left his keys, or inadvertently puts on one blue sock and one brown one, or forgets his grandchild's birthday, the first thing that pops into his relatives' minds is "Alzheimer's."
Too late. See "new-disease-creation fatigue syndrome", page 75. :=)
"UH-OH! I am in big trouble here, for the only shoes I can wear are Birkies, and I am as conservative an ol' granny in fly-over land as they come.
Those of you who suffer from Morton's neuroma will understand."
I do understand what you're posting...yup! I'm just saying Birkies aren't for me..LOL. I have foot problems too (plantar fasciitis). So far it's improved with better sneakers for work and heel pads.
The sodomites basically intimidated them into it ..disrupting
the APA convention...and threatening...
The APA caved to the sodomite agenda..it's been downhill ever since..
The next meeting may be held in Brokebutt Mountain National Park
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