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Abnormal Is the New Normal: Why will half of the U.S. population have a diagnosable mental disorder?
Slate ^ | April 12, 2013 | Robin S. Rosenberg

Posted on 04/15/2013 8:28:25 AM PDT by neverdem

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1 posted on 04/15/2013 8:28:25 AM PDT by neverdem
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To: neverdem

Brave New World


2 posted on 04/15/2013 8:30:25 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: neverdem

Coincidentally, half also think a man can marry a man.


3 posted on 04/15/2013 8:32:12 AM PDT by Viennacon
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To: neverdem

You can’t have a gun if you are insane.

If you want a gun you are, by definition, insane.


4 posted on 04/15/2013 8:33:33 AM PDT by null and void (Republicans create the tools of oppression and Democrats use them. Gun confiscation enables tyranny.)
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To: neverdem

Obamacare.

Liberal, gay, socialist = OK.

Conservative, law abiding, god fearing = Christian gun toting nutjob.

You see where this is going, right?


5 posted on 04/15/2013 8:33:54 AM PDT by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
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To: neverdem
Uh...because they can be treated with a monthly subscription, I mean a monthly medication and, for some, an additional bi-weekly talk-session? I mean, people can cancel their cable, but their freakout pills? No way.

My first trip to the emergency room in 30 years and the young physician was telling me I needed these pills. I asked her how long I would have to take them and she said long-term. Puh-freaking-leeze! This is after one scan that showed some irritation in one of my innards, one blood test that showed all was normal and one urine sample that also showed all was normal. They push them pills and people like to gobble them up. After a week of what I'll call selective eating, I'm fine.
6 posted on 04/15/2013 8:34:33 AM PDT by AD from SpringBay (We deserve the government we allow.)
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To: factoryrat

Bingo!


7 posted on 04/15/2013 8:35:08 AM PDT by SgtHooper (The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on the list.)
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To: neverdem

Yep, everyone who has ever gone to a doctor must have some sort of mental disorder, and so is ineligible to own a gun. Law enforcement, politicians and Democrats exempt.


8 posted on 04/15/2013 8:38:22 AM PDT by Sender (It's never too late to be who you could have been.)
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To: neverdem
Duh! The easiest way for someone(s) to consolidate absolute power is to declare those OTHERS mentally ill.

It is not as if following Soviet and other Communist rule books hadn't been tried.

And the public don't know nuttin’ ‘bout history.

9 posted on 04/15/2013 8:38:51 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: BenLurkin

Sounds like Hitler’s Germany, ya think?


10 posted on 04/15/2013 8:39:45 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: neverdem

Combine this with Toomey-Manchin and now you have rights stripped from a majority of the population. Just wait until someone decides ‘the pen is mightier than the sword’ and starts restricting 1st Amendment rights based on mental disorders(sic)


11 posted on 04/15/2013 8:41:14 AM PDT by mnehring
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To: ExTexasRedhead

Well, there...the lunatics were in charge.


12 posted on 04/15/2013 8:41:35 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: AD from SpringBay

We had a neurologist pushing some medication to my daughter for a hand disorder she has (focal dystonia). He was correct at diagnosing the disorder, but wrong about the treatment.

He said the medication had minimal side-effects, but we reaseached, and it has terrible side effects. It also only works on a small amount of people.

We went to a movement disorders specialist, and she told us that is not how they treat dystonia when it is in 1 area of the body. The medication is for people that have it throughout their bodies and the benefits outweigh the risks.

The specialist has sent my daughter to physical therapy.

Grant it, it’s not helping, but nothing much does help with the disorder.


13 posted on 04/15/2013 8:42:02 AM PDT by luckystarmom
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To: neverdem
1) To make homosexuality "normal".

2) To disqualify you from owning a gun.

It's really that simple.

14 posted on 04/15/2013 8:42:15 AM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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To: neverdem
I would say any election clearly points this out.

All the votes for democraps are clearly people with a diagnosable mental disorder.

I realized this decades ago.

15 posted on 04/15/2013 8:43:08 AM PDT by I cannot think of a name
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To: neverdem
ABC News/Washington Post reveals that support is now up to 58 percent for gay marriage in the most recent [poll] up from 32 percent nine years ago.”

Well there you have it! Gay “marriage” is trending and a huge number support it.

What does this say about the American psyche today?


16 posted on 04/15/2013 8:43:39 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: BenLurkin

The same lunatics are here and now; Hitler and his Gestapo/SS are reborn, ya think?


17 posted on 04/15/2013 8:43:58 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: neverdem
That part of this that is backed up by genuine research instead of definitional game-playing (half or less, IMHO) reflects a portion of society that is lacking something in its approach to life. I wonder if anyone has cared to correlate this with the erosion of religion within the affected cohorts? I do not say this as a bible-thumping Christian enthusiast, only as a simple observer - it is entirely possible, even likely, that religion helps keep us sane, and with it certain other aspects of society that have come to be regarded as conservative for some reason, such as a stable family with two parents.

The problem with grandly declaring a "new normal" is that it is neither new nor normal, and that there are reasons other than oppression, sexism, racism, and homophobia that have sculpted societies into their present sundry forms. Social theorists and engineers, and yes, psychologists, flout this at their, and our peril.

18 posted on 04/15/2013 8:45:01 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: neverdem

What’s interesting to me is how quickly and easily people fell into line on referring all their problems as “mental disorders” years ago, and now it’s sitting there in people’s medical histories so conveniently for the gun grabbers.


19 posted on 04/15/2013 8:47:18 AM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: neverdem

Too many Americans watch TV.


20 posted on 04/15/2013 8:49:42 AM PDT by Vinylly
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