Caffeine withdrawal is now a mental disorder

Philadelphia Inquirer ^ | June 4, 2013 | Kelly O'Shea

[newnhdad]

I was laying on the prep bed prior to a minor operation and I was instructed the day before to not ingest anything prior to the procedure. I was laying on the bed, my eyes squinting and my head pounding and I was in obvious discomfort and the nurse asks what the problem is.. in what seemed to be five minutes, they had me hooked up to a caffeine IV..

The headache would have gone away as soon as the anesthesiologist juiced me up but it was nice to know they had the stuff. Would that type of withdrawal get me disability?

[Caipirabob]

So if you quit taking coffee, they can take away your guns.

Got it...

[GraceG]

Tea Contains Caffeine....

They are going after the Tea Party, LITERALLY!!!!!

Because if you are suffering Caffeine withdrawal they can now take your guns....

[Stepan12]

But homosexuality is no longer a mental disorder because men having sex with men activists intimidated the cowardly psychiatrists to drop it from the DSM. Also, pedophilia is only a disorder if one feels guilt about the actions according to the latest DSM. :-|

[Jake8898]

They can’t. Inclusion in the DSM does not make something a “mental disorder.” Caffeine withdrawal is a physiological condition but it does not mean someone is now mentally ill.

[RobinOfKingston]

...five or more of the following symptoms, says the guide, you’ve probably been caffeine-buzzed: restlessness, nervousness, excitement, insomnia, flushed face, diuresis (having to pee a lot), gastrointestinal disturbance, muscle twitching, rambling flow of thought and speech, tachycardia or cardiac arrhythmia, periods of inexhaustibility or psychomotor agitation (unintentional motion, say, rapidly bouncing one leg).

Symptoms?

Most of that list is what passes for normal for anyone competent enough to plug in and load their own coffee pot.

[marygam]

LOL!! I can’t stop laughing. You crack me up when I need it the most!

[TexasFreeper2009]

um... caffine withdrwaw is now a mental disorder.. but being attracted to someone of the same sex is perfectly normal?

Why does any one take ANY THING the APA says seriously.

[caww]

New gun laws prevent gun ownership by people with “mental disorders”....... Looks like they just gave some nice legal cover for disqualifying millions from owning guns because they “are or have” in the past been treated by a psychologist for a mental disorder.....”Coffee now considered a Mental Disorder”

[caww]

Exactly....The mental disorder lies in those who are trying to analyse the effects and then stamp it as ‘such and such’.

But it will work for those who say you can’t have a gun if you’ve been treated for a mental disorder.

[caww]

That’s right....In reality you suffer physical symptoms for a short amount of time.,,,,Those symptoms dissipate and disappear.... therefore, it’s not a mental disorder.

[bravo whiskey]

so now anyone who drinks 5-6 cups of coffee a day cannot own a weapon because he has a mental comndition.

[MaxMax]

News laws against secondhand drip. Protect the cheeldren.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Gets to the point that the cures are worse than the disorders they are chasing after. (Reminiscent of the folk song about the old lady who swallowed a fly, then all manner of critters from a spider to a horse in an attempt to deal with her problems.)

[CottShop]

BS- addictions are LACK OF SELF CONTROL... PERIOD- they have NOTHING to do with mental problems- Millions upon millions of Prior addicts can attest to htsi very FACT-

[BitWielder1]

The real mental disorder is if you believe all that crap.

[School of Rational Thought]

Here we go, government to disarm anyone carrying at Starbucks

[HiTech RedNeck]

It’s probably more real, though, than some of the other airy fairy things in it based on twisted mores.

[prairiebreeze]

Heh!

[Fred Hayek]

Many of the symptoms listed are physiological disorders, but are now mental disorders? Has Werner Erhard wormed his way into steering the DSM?