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Tim Geithner: Prone to ‘Odd Fits of Giggling’
NY Mag ^ | 9/6/10 | Nitasha Tiku

Posted on 09/06/2010 11:50:15 AM PDT by Nachum

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To: healy61
I think the outburst of inappropriate laughter is called hebophrenia.

ICD-10 Criteria for Hebephrenic Schizophrenia
A form of schizophrenia in which affective changes are prominent, delusions and hallucinations fleeting and fragmentary, behaviour irresponsible and unpredictable, and mannerisms common. The mood is shallow and inappropirate and often accompanied by giggling or self-satisfied, self-absorbed smiling, or by a lofty manner, grimaces, mannerisms, pranks, hypochondriacal complaints, and reiterated phrases. Thought is disorganized and speech rambling and incoherent. There is a tendency to remain solitary, and behaviour seems empty of purpose and feeling. This form of schizphrenia usually starts between the ages of 15 and 25 years and tends to have a poor prognosis because of the rapid development of "negative" symptoms, particularly flattening of affect and loss of volition.

Sounds more like the epilepsy described in my other link to me, but I'm not a physician so YMMV.

21 posted on 09/06/2010 12:47:21 PM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Nachum

But so was Baron Bomburst.


22 posted on 09/06/2010 12:54:39 PM PDT by righttackle44 (I may not be much, but I raised a United States Marine.)
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To: healy61
Undesirable Language
Compulsive cursing, or coprolalia , is often the result of neurological conditions such as Tourette syndrome (TS), frontal lobe damage, epilepsy , schizophrenia, dementia, Alzheimer's disease, and mental retardation.

Who knows? So many things fit.

23 posted on 09/06/2010 12:55:48 PM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: philman_36

Maybe he was just punch drunk? Ask Steve Kroft.


24 posted on 09/06/2010 1:04:39 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
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To: Nachum
Timmy

25 posted on 09/06/2010 1:06:40 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
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To: The_Media_never_lie
Maybe he was just punch drunk?
I'm still going with demonic possession.

Ask Steve Kroft.
I wouldn't even give him 60 seconds, much less 60 minutes.

26 posted on 09/06/2010 1:11:36 PM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Nachum

Geithner isn’t qualified to be a bank teller.


27 posted on 09/06/2010 1:38:54 PM PDT by roaddog727 (It's the Constitution, Stupid!)
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To: Nachum
Remember how we had to have Geitner as Sec. Treasury, no one else coild save us?

Wonder if that had anything to do with obummer's mother working for Geitner's father when she was in Indonesia.

28 posted on 09/06/2010 1:59:44 PM PDT by Eagles6 ( Typical White Guy: Christian, Constitutionalist, Heterosexual, Redneck.)
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I would like to know what got cut during that 60 min. session in order to protect Hussein.


29 posted on 09/06/2010 2:36:05 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
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To: Nachum

Him and that gay congressman from New York who resigned should get together, two giggling gayboys.


30 posted on 09/06/2010 2:45:21 PM PDT by decisis
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Just what we need a tax cheating incompetent with Tourette’s

It fits.

I'm pretty sure I see some autism in Obama.

He's a creepy strange guy, and he picked creepy strange people to serve his administration.

31 posted on 09/06/2010 2:56:03 PM PDT by SteamShovel (UTOPIA...Isn't)
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32 posted on 09/06/2010 3:02:20 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: The_Media_never_lie
I would like to know what got cut during that 60 min. session in order to protect Hussein.
The necessary questions weren't asked to start with so there was nothing to cut.
33 posted on 09/06/2010 3:04:49 PM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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I would like to know what got cut during that 60 min. session in order to protect Hussein.

The necessary questions weren't asked to start with so there was nothing to cut.

So true.

34 posted on 09/06/2010 3:38:50 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
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To: philman_36

WOW, man that describes Timmy G to a tee. You must have this stuff up!


35 posted on 09/06/2010 5:08:14 PM PDT by dusttoyou (Let the other side get all wee-wee'd up, Remember come November)
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To: dusttoyou

Proof read is my friend.

You must have MADE this stuff up!


36 posted on 09/06/2010 5:10:24 PM PDT by dusttoyou (Let the other side get all wee-wee'd up, Remember come November)
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To: philman_36

Yikes!! this describes someone I know.


37 posted on 09/06/2010 10:54:59 PM PDT by 1_Rain_Drop
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To: Nachum

I can’t wait to read this book. I’d bet on it being a #1 on the NYT best-seller’s list for a while.


38 posted on 09/07/2010 2:16:24 AM PDT by LibertyRocks
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Anyone heard anything about Rahm lately? We haven’t seen hide nor hair since the scene at the Wailing Wall, have we? This report brings his name up. Is he even in DC anymore? And the giggling—he can’t BELIEVE his own position of power, it is so incredulous, EVEN TO HIMSELF! He giggles to get over the stress of filling a position for which he isn’t remotely qualified.


39 posted on 09/07/2010 2:47:18 AM PDT by browniexyz
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